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Scurlogstown Olympiad Hay Making Festival 19th June 2011

Scurlogstown Olympiad
Trim Hay Making Festival
at the Porchfields (beside Trim Castle), Co. Meath

    

Sunday 19th June 2011    
Trim Haymaking Festival
featuring the Roll in the Hay competition (sponsored by the Knightsbrook Hotel & Castle Arch Hotel, Trim)

• Special Guest arrives by river to the Thatched Village
• Vintage Tractors & Machinery Working mowers, tedders, etc
•  Display of Vintage Tractors, Machinery, Engines, Pumps, Model Engines
• Working Farm Horses &  Mowers, Wheelrakes, Tumbling Paddies
• The Unique Haycocking Machine
• Scythe Cutting Competition & Sheaf Tossing Competition (new World Record 62ft. in 2009)
• ‘Play in the Hay’ ( Maze & tunnels) & Pets Corner for the very young
• ‘Roll in the Hay’ for the slightly older &  more amorous
•  Music  *  Set Dancing  *  Ceili * Carney School of  Irish Dancing
• Coscan (Meath)* Cois Tine (Galway) * Naomh Padraig (thrice All Ireland Fleadh Senior Ceili Band winners) *Wexford Mummers * Dunderry Strawboys * Phoenix (Dublin,  recent Tops of the Town Winners) all on four stages
• Dog Show * Donkey Show *  Goat Show
• Thrills & Spills  Donkey Derby (boys, girls &  mixed)
• Dan O’Hara’s Farm, sheep shearing, thatching a cottage, stone wall building, hand milk cows, collect the freshly laid hen eggs, cocks the hay
• Macra na Feirme(young farmers club) Semifinals of National Farm Skills
• Arts & Crafts around the old Thatched Village
• Fishing Display by Trim & District Angling Association
• Trade stands, Fun Fair, Food Stalls
• Takes place in Trim,Co.Meath in the shadow of Trim Castle scene of the Mel Gibson blockbuster ‘Braveheart’.

Trim is 30miles/40mins from Dublin; 2hrs from Belfast & Galway ; 3hrs from Cork

A Great Family Day Out! ADM €10, Children FREE, Free Car Parking

Contact:   
Tom - 086 2580407; Pat -0863843380; Hugh -086-8608876
John -086-8575618; Aoife Farrelly -0863645579

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For more information on this year's event please see www.scurlogstown.com or contact John Marron (PRO) on +353 86 857 5618 or johnjmarron@eircom.net