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Scurlogstown Olympiad Trim Haymaking Festival - From the Banks of the Boyne to the Banks of the Liffey

Scurlogstown Olympiad Trim Haymaking Festival - From the Banks of the Boyne to the Banks of the Liffey

Our passion is to relive and revive the country life, farming practices, rural pastimes and music and to show how our ancestors lived. Our benchmark annual events, including the Trim Haymaking Festival and High Nelly Cycle  provide an opportunity for thousands to share in our cultural celebration in our home town of Trim on the river Boyne.  

County Meath invades Dublin as part of the city will be turned into a rural village for Festival weekend on Sat Jan 28th and Sun Jan 29th

Thatched cottages, animals and other items more at home in a rural farm will be seen in the grounds of Christ Church Cathedral this weekend as the Temple Bar TradFest welcomes Meath Beo to the City. Meath Beo is a collective of traditional festivals from Co Meath and they will be out in force in Temple Bart during the TradFest where they will be involving & engaging visitors in their rural traditions and customs.  Young and old will learn how to sharpen a scythe, milk a cow, make a sugan rope, and dance a half-set. Help make a cock of hay, age a horse by looking at its teeth, sheer a sheep, guess the weight of a goat, cook colcannon, thresh the corn, foot turf and sing a sean-nós song.

Meath Beo led by the committee Scurlogstown Olympiad will be be transforming the grounds of Christ Church Cathedral, creating a rural village of reconstructed thatched houses, and the smell of bread making and butter churning and the taste of the boxty will be sure to keep away the January blues.  Bring the family to experience an Animal Farm and  meet Nelly the Donkey and Daisy the cow, alongside pigs and goats and lambs and sheep.

Meath BEO will also take to the outdoor stages on Saturday the 28th of January on Fownes St from 11am until 1pm.

Also keep any eye out for the TradFest matchmaker, and the colourful wren boys.  Watch out for The High Nellies with cyclists in period costume in action on the streets of Temple Bar.

Temple Bar TradFest is presenting a jam packed family programme with concerts, dance workshops, trad music sessions and a drop-in craft club for children at The Ark Tradfest Family Hub, street entertainment, pipe bands, outdoor stages and many free events.  The majority of events for families in the Festival are free.  Ticketed events from €3 - €10.  

                           

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