Carlingford Oyster Festival – The World Famous Family Day Out

World Famous
Carlingford Oyster Festival

The Carlingford Oyster Festival offers a four day fun-filled festival for the whole family and is packed with traditional children’s activities including Magic Show, Face Painting, the ever popular Teddy Bear’s Picnic, Free Kayaking in the Harbour, Children’s Funfair & Bouncing Castles and much, much more!

Carlingford Oyster Festival,
6th – 10th August 2020

Carlingford Festival, probably the most relaxing seafood festival in Ireland. From incredible views across the lough to the quaint old streets of Carlingford, you’ll be in heaven!

The famous festival which promises five fun filled days from Thursday 6th – Monday 10th August 2020 is looking forward to a packed programme of fun, delicious gastronomy and oyster pearl antics..!

Carlingford Chowder & Music Festival,
28th – 30th August 2020

New for 2020, we will be hosting our first Carlingford Chowder and Music Festival.

More details available soon.

The Furey’s,
Thursday 8th August 2019

Don’t miss the opening night of the Carlingford Oyster Festival where legends of Irish music & song The FUREYS play on Thursday 8th August.

Renowned for their hit songs ‘I will love you’, ‘When you were sweet 16’, ‘The Green fields of France’, ‘The old man’, ‘Red rose café’, ‘From Clare to here’, ‘Her father didn’t like me anyway’, ‘Leaving Nancy’, ‘Steal away’ and many more the night is sure to be a great hit.

Book Tickets

Oyster Pearl Competition

The well known ‘lovely girl’ competition that crowned over 25 pearls since its inception and made many a mammy cry with pride, is polishing up the crown ready for the 2020 contest.

Participants will prepare for tasks like lunch on Carlingford Lough, tractor riding at Carlingford Oyster Farm, strutting their stuff on the catwalk, water activities (courtesy of the Carlingford Adventure Centre), dining out in Carlingford’s award winning restaurants and much more.