The August Bank Holiday weekend is the last bank holiday weekend of the Summer so let’s try and make the very most of it! There is a wide variety of events and festivals happening across County Kerry this year and we’ve compiled a list to help you make the very most of it. Events in Kerry and Festivals in Kerry – we are the master of them!
Cahersiveen Music Festival, Cahersiveen, Kerry
The Cahersiveen Festival of Music & the Arts is held each year in Cahersiveen town, County Kerry on the August Bank Holiday Weekend and this year it promises to be a very special occasion. The Cahersiveen Festival will be in its 25th year in 2022 and each year it strives to bring bigger acts and greater street entertainment. The Festival is a family-friendly festival with entertainment for adults and children alike.
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Dan Paddy Andy Festival, Lyreacrompane, Kerry
The Dan Paddy Andy four-day Festival is Ireland’s Real Rural Festival and takes place every August Bank Holiday Weekend in Lyreacrompane, Co Kerry. Lyreacrompane is on the main road about halfway between Listowel and Castleisland. This year the festival offers a storytelling night to kick off the festival on Friday 29th July with marquee dancing, a guided bog walk, turf cutting, a 5/10km walk and many more events happening across the weekend.
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Féile Lios Póil, Lios Póil, West Kerry
Féile Lios Póil is a community festival that takes place in the parish of Lios Póil, Co.Kerry every August bank holiday weekend.
A celebration of life in rural Ireland. The festival features something for all ages, including arts, crafts, music, Irish dancing, a table quiz, a car treasure hunt, Gaelic football competitions, tug of war competitions, sheep shearing, athletics and hill walking.
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Live Forever Oasis – The Definitive Oasis Tribute Band & The Complete Stone Roses – Gleneagle INEC Arena, Killarney
Live Forever are the definitive tribute to the iconic Manchester Super group Oasis. Brought together with a purpose and passion to perform the crowd-rousing hits, B-sides & album tracks of Oasis on their local pub scene. A decade later this unrivaled tribute band is now consistently selling out major venues and festivals nationwide & beyond. This record-breaking tribute band is also officially the most followed Oasis Tribute band on social media on the planet!
The Complete Stone Roses are one of the UK’s most well-known, most seen, and most successful tribute bands. Selling out venues across the UK and Ireland regularly, they have helped to carry on the music of one of the UK’s most influential bands – The Stone Roses. Friday 29th July at 8pm. Tickets from €32
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Irish Traditional Trades Fair, Ballylongford
The inaugural Irish Traditional Trades Fair will be held on 30-31 July 2022 at Ballylongford Mill, Ballylongford in North Kerry, a weekend where traditional trades and craftspeople from all over the country come together to demonstrate their skills.
It’ll be a family-friendly weekend with old-fashioned fairground games for the kids, food, entertainment and lots of traditional crafts for sale.
There will be a wide variety of trades and crafts on display, from Longbow makers to Coppersmiths, Feltmakers to Musical Instrument makers, Basketmakers to Blacksmiths.
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