festivals and fairs around east kilmallock cappamore

The popular Lough Gur Halloween Storytelling Festival was established in 1995 and takes place over the Halloween weekend and coincides with the old Irish holiday of Samhain.

Lough Gur is steeped in many Irish heritage tales which have been kept alive by local storytellers. What has made this festival what it is today is the worldwide storytellers who have visited to tell their tales....

This festival takes place on the rolling hills that border the counties of Limerick, Cork and Tipperary. The landscape there is full of green pastures and pleasant woodlands; this unspoilt wilderness is a walker’s paradise and there will be various grades of walks from the casual to the strenuous....

Ballylanders Pattern Festival is held each year on 15th August. The Committee now for a number of years have stretched that to a week.They run GAA tournaments, soccer matches and other sporting events, as well as music and dance events....