Festivals & Events

23 May - 30 October 2019, Countywide Welcome to the 13th season of the Donegal Garden Trail. We are delighted Brown’s Farm, a lovely spring cottage garden and well worth a visit, has re-joined the Trail after a short absence. We extend a very warm welcome to Castle Grove House Hotel which joins us both as a hospitality provider and as an interesting and historical garden to visit with specim…

1st June to 28th October 2019 - Oideas Gael has been recognised, on a number of occasions, as one of Ireland’s unique cultural education providers and was the 1997 winner of the National Rural Tourism Award sponsored by Bord Fáilte, The Northern Ireland Tourist Board and Allied Irish Banks. They also achieved the distinction of being the winner of the BARR 50 businesses in Irish, from the daily Ir…

21 - 23 June 2019, Letterkenny The Donegal International Rally is an annual sporting event held in Co. Donegal. It is one of Ireland’s oldest annual rally competitions and is a top event in the Irish Rallying calendar. The rally brings thousands of Domestic and International visitors to Donegal each year and this year won’t be any different. The Donegal International Rally has a reputation f…

21 - 23 June 2019, Bundoran SEA SESSIONS is Europe’s best surf, skate and music festival taking place in Bundoran, Co. Donegal, Ireland. A 3 day long event of surfing, skating, partying and music! Sea Sessions is rooted in a love of surfing. The cream of Irish and European surfers take part in the ASP sanctioned surf competition. In addition to surfing and music, other activities include str…

21 - 23 June 2019, Dunfanaghy We are calling this year’s festival, “BAND 2019 The Year of the Guitar” because among the bands and musicians taking part will be some world class guitar players including: Porter McClister, one of Nashville’s best guitar players; Sephen Inglis an amazing and multifarious guitarist from Hawaii; Shawn Jones a superb American roots guitarist from California;…