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Ballinasloe Fair & Festival
Oct 4-Oct 11 - confirmed
Ballinasloe trades horses as it has for centuries, the October fair one of Europe's oldest and still mud-deep with equine business.
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Cultural timing intelligence - verified, never extracted.
Notable cultural timing - Moderate confidence
Ireland ranked Notable this window. 2 celebrations contribute to its cultural timing during October 2026.
Methodology: Top-5 cultural-timing scores averaged, with high-confidence celebration count and seasonal density as tiebreakers.
Oct 4-Oct 11 - confirmed
Ballinasloe trades horses as it has for centuries, the October fair one of Europe's oldest and still mud-deep with equine business.
View celebrationOct 16-Oct 31 - provisional
Wexford stages rare and forgotten operas each autumn, the small-town festival a world-class refuge for the operatic road less traveled.
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