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Our Event Calendar provides information on halloween and mid-term events happening around the country suitable for families and kids.
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Connaught | |
| Spooktacular at Aughnanure Castle, Oughterard | Free Family Halloween Fun Day at Aughnanure Castle, Oughterard
This Halloween themed family day promises to be packed full of frightfully fun activities to excite and delight parents and children alike. Free admission will be offered to everyone on the day. Children can look forward to a treasure hunt, face painting, Halloween games and a fancy dress competition. Schools and after-school clubs are also invited to enter the school's art competition themed A Spooktacular Castle, where children have to draw or paint the castle according to this theme. All entries must reach the castle before Friday, October 23rd. Winners will be announced and prizes will be awarded on the day.
Start: 25/10 Times: 12pm e: aughnanurecastle@opw.ie Phone: 091 552214 |
| Haunted House att Brigits Garden Brigits Garden | The Haunted House promises spine-chilling fun for the whole family as you solve the ghostly mystery, featuring a variety of professional special effects along with a cast of live characters. The event is mainly indoors, with ghostly gardens to explore if you dare. The Garden Café will be open. Tickets available at the door.
Start: 26/10 End: 31/10 Admission: Adult /Child €8, Family Admission €34 (2 adults & 3 children) www.brigitsgarden.ie Roscahill Galway |
| Legends of Lough Key Adventure | We invite you on a magical adventure deep within Lough Key Forest Park celebrating the mystery and lore of this ancient place and featuring a family adventure festival, packed full of amazing activities. Featuring a 10k run, the SpooKey fun run, a giant treasure hunt, the mighty Moylurg abseil and zip wires and a quirky kayak adventure around the islands of the Lough, the ancient seat of the Kings of Moylurg will come alive this Halloween with the Legends of Lough Key Adventure Fest. Start: 31/10 http://www.legendsofloughkey.com Lough Key Forest Park, Boyle Roscommon |
Dublin County | |
| Halloween Fun at GAA Museum | Frazzled parents looking for something to occupy their energetic youngsters during the midterm break will be relieved to know that the GAA Museum has plenty of Halloween themed fun planned for the week. From Monday 26th onwards, young visitors to the museum will have to play detective in order to discover if their tour guide is telling lies, or actually telling the truth, on the popular ‘telling tall tales tour’, those who detect their guides lies will be rewarded with some Halloween treats. The Halloween Mask Workshop on Saturday 31st October. Ages 6+ Booking is essential as places are limited. Start: 26/10 www.gaa.ie/museum Croke Park Dublin |
| Halloween Workshops | The Seamus Ennis Cultural Centre has a number of Halloween themed workshop including the Scary Crow Head Workshop, Make Your Own Bat, Dracula Workshop, Puppet Shows and lots more. Visit their website for further details. Start: 27/10 End: 29/10 www.seamusenniscentre.com e: info@seamusenniscentre.com Phone: 01 802 0898 Naul, Fingal Dublin |
| Exhibition of Childrens Art | The biggest ever exhibition of children’s art in Ireland organised by Dublin’s leading children’s art school Artzone, will feature the fabulous paintings, prints, sculptures, fabrics and graphics from over 450 children across Dublin, Kildare & Wicklow. The theme of the Artzone Student’s Art Exhibition is ‘Faces’. All students have created a piece that reflects themselves in a medium of their choice Start: 27/10 End: 06/11 www.artzone.ie South Dublin Art Centre, RUA RED Gallery, Tallaght |
| Children’s Craft Workshop National Print Museum | Hallowe'en Mask Making with Aoife McGonigle. Ages 8-12. Scare your friends with the mad masks and creepy crafts you will make in this frighteningly fun themed workshop!
For further information and bookings contact the National Print Museum. Start: 30/10 Times: 2.30pm-4pm Admission: €20 each www.nationalprintmuseum.ie e: printmuseumedu@iol.ie Phone: 01 6603770 National Print Museum Beggars Bush Barracks Haddington Rd Dublin 4 |
| The Ballymun Otherworld Halloween Festival | The Ballymun "Otherworld Festival" is Dublin's biggest Halloween event.
This year the festival will transform the Plaza in front of the Civic Centre and axis on Main Street into “Hallowmun” a freaky, crazy town where anything can happen on Halloween night.
Hallowmun will come alive with a poetry graveyard, a Play Zone, a Youth Zone music tents, 'thrilling' dancers and performers, costume & makeup stalls, freaky cocktails bar, jokes corner, food stalls, fireworks display and much more.
Gerbola Circus is also back in town this year with circus performance workshops for children, young people and youth workers, in the run up to Halloween night.
The festival will close with an amazing fireworks display.
Meeting Point for the Halloween Parade is at Days Hotel at 5.50pm. Groups will parade down Main Street Ballymun and into “Hallowmun” Start: 31/10 Times: 6pm - 8.30pm www.otherworldfestival.com e: annmarie.lyons@dublincity.ie Phone: Brian Mongey 01 222 5717, Ann Marie Lyons 01 222 7305 |
Leinster (outside Dublin) | |
| Causey Halloween Experience Causey Farm | An unmissable two-hour show of hilarious, spine-tingling, ingenious and terrifying happenings in eight venues around Causey farm … hauntings, potions, tastings, mournings, seasonal traditions and madcap fun. at seasonal customs; Hear how the ancient Celtic Festival of Samhain started here in Co. Meath; Visit the Haunted House of Clonbrehan; Pay your respects at Old Granny Smyth's wake tonight... and there’s a few new twists this year… Happy Horrors for Little Terrors – Show for Young Children
Oct 31st 2 – 4 pm Start: 23/10 End: 31/10 Times: 5.30 p.m. & 8 p.m. Admission: €13 www.causeyexperience.com e: info@causeyexperience.com Phone: 046 9434135 Co Meath |
| Spirits of Meath Halloween Festival | Meath’s first ever Halloween Festival will take place in the county titled ‘Spirits of Meath – Where Halloween Began’! It promises to be scintillating, electrifying and of course…spooky!!! For the inaugural Halloween festival, “Spirits of Meath”, each of the particpants have brought something unique to the event to ensure visitors really enjoy their experience in the Royal County with a vast and varied programme of things to do for all ages and interests! Visit Meath website for details of events
Start: 23/10 End: 31/10 www.meathtourism.ie e: info@meathtourism.ie Phone: 046 9097060 |
| Spooky Thrills | Spooky Thrills, Fun & Surprises . 2 Sessions daily. Irelands Newest Spookiest and most fun event. Suitable for kids up to 10/12 (and adults of all ages!) Experience: The Witches Game Den , Spooky Cemetery, Story Time in the Haunted House,
Pumpkin Decorating and much more...
Start: 23/10 End: 01/11 Times: 3pm daily Admission: €13 - pre booking only www.redmountainopenfarm.ie e: info@redmountainopenfarm.ie Donore Meath |
Barradrum Farm Halloween Fright Nights: .jpg) | Nights: Are you Brave enough to Enter our Forest after dark? Rickety trailer ride to haunted forest trails; Halloween games in the straw barn; Go-Kart by candlelight. We’re also running Halloween Camps: details on website.
Start: 30/10 End: 31/10 Admission: 30/10, 31/10 from 5.30 pm, €8 per person or €25 family (2 adults/2children or 1 adult/3 children). www.barradrumfarm.ie Phone: 043 6685922 or 087 2745809 Barradrum Farm, Streete Westmeath |
| Halloween at Birr Castle | For families with children 10 years and younger. Experience thrills and chills at Birr Castle Demesne’s annual Halloween Night. Children and their parents will trick or treat in the ghostly gardens, while encountering wicked witches, deadly ghouls and more. They will even knock at the Castle door to receive a special treat! Advance booking essential Start: 31/10 www.birrcastle.com e: mail@birrcastle.com Phone: 057 9120336 Birr Offaly |
Munster | |
| Craft and Creatures Travelling Roadshow | Experience handling some weird and wonderful creatures from around the world. We have * animals * kids art workshops * Craft fair for adults * face painting * balloon modeling * refreshments * raffles * exhibitions and displays * and more...... Come along and enjoy yourself, there will be something for the whole family. Kids admission includes Paper Crafts workshop, animals and balloons. Start: 26/10 Times: 12pm-5pm Admission: Adults €2 Kids (under 15) €4 www.theanimalroadshow.com e: animalroadshow@gmail.com Phone: 087 626 1553 Dromtariffe Community Hall, Mallow Road, Co. Cork (On N72 Killarney to Mallow road, just past The Sandpit Pub) |
| Irish Ghost Family Festival | At the 9th World Ghost Convention, October 30th next at 8 p.m. Cork City Gaol, which will be officially opened by the Lord Mayor of Cork, a colourful assortment of supernatural topics will be explored by a panel of guest speakers while audience members have an opportunity to share their own personal supernatural experiences. Tickets: €25 at Pro Musica, Cork. Start: 30/10 Admission: €25 www.irishghostfestival.com e: irishghostfestival@yahoo.com Phone: 086 3946382 Cork City Gaol |
| Dragon of Shandon Halloween Parade | Preparations for the 4th Dragon Of Shandon Halloween Parade are already underway with plans for an extensive community participation programme under development. Keep an eye on our website for details Start: 31/10 www.corkcommunityartlink.com e: 021 4212914 Shandon Cork |
Ulster | |