Bantry Walking Festival takes place in Bantry from May 30th - June 2nd 2025. The Bantry Walking Festival is an annual event held over the June Bank Holiday weekend.  It involves organised guided walks in stunning parts of Bantry and the surrounding area. Take a walk on The Sheep’s Head or a short ferry over […]

The West Cork Music Festival will be held in Bantry from June 27th - July 6th, 2025. The West Cork Chamber Music Festival includes concerts, masterclasses, talks and instrument making workshops.   The hundred or so invited musicians are without exception superb, the programming combines the challenging and the unknown with the familiar and the […]

The West Cork Fit Up Festival takes place across West Cork from July 11th - August 6th. The core essence of the Fit-up Theatre Festival nods to the tradition of Fit-up theatre of the 1950s.  Back then, professional companies travelled the length and breadth of Ireland reaching a wide variety of towns, villages and rural […]

The Bantry Book Fair takes place in Bantry on July 12th, 2025. The Bantry Book Fair will present Antiquarian, Rare and Historical books, Irish Language books, books by Local Authors, Second Hand books and literary magazines. It will also promote West Cork bookshops and is kindly supported by Bantry Development & Tourism Association.   FREE […]

The Ellen Hutchins Festival takes place in Bantry from August 16th - 24th, 2025. The Ellen Hutchins Festival is held every August to celebrate the life and work of Ireland’s first female botanist, Ellen Hutchins who was from Ballylickey, Bantry.  The festival includes a programme of workshops, exhibitions, walks, talks, boat trips and other events […]

The Bantry Agricultural Show returns on August 17th, 2025. Every year Bantry is host to one of the biggest summer agricultural shows in the area.  Located on Bantry airstrip overlooking Bantry Bay, it is a fantastic show of all things agricultural competing for that prized rosette.  There are different competitions for skill and breed for […]

The Masters of Tradition Festival, Bantry showcases the best of Irish and international traditional music. As ever, the Festival is headlined by its Artistic Director Martin Hayes, the fiddler from […]

Culture Night takes place on Frday, September 19th in Bantry. This night is a celebration of all things Irish through free cultural events in towns and cities across the island […]

The Fastnet Rally returns to Bantry on Sunday, October 26th, 2025. The rally is a real highlight of the Bank Holiday weekend and promises to be a cracking weekend in […]

Great fun for all the family to celebrate Halloween as everyone gathers in scary fancy dress in Wolfe Tone Square for spooky walks, a Pirate Shipwreck Party Disco and facepainting. […]

A fantastic annual event on Wolfe Tone Square for all the family to celebrate the arrival of the New Year. Music will start on the square at approx. 9pm and the fireworks will start at approx. 10pm.  Everyone will be able to gather with their families on the square and down along the bay or […]