festivals and fairs around east navan

Events include an exhibition of steam threshing, vintage engines and machinery and working demonstrations of reaping and binding. Displays of crafts and museum artifacts, horse drawn machinery along with side shows and dancing deck....

This festival will incorporate a 7th Century Irish crafts village, warrior games and street entertainment at key points in the town. On Sunday, a parade and a re-enactment of the battle itself will take place between the Saxon King, Egfrith and the Irish....

Saint Patrick supposedly picked his first shamrock on the Hill of Tara just a few kilometres away, and today the people of Navan have a Shamrock festival to coincide with the celebration of Irelands National Holiday. There is an innovative take on the use of floats as the float parade race is on the river! The winner is awarded EUR1,000 and bragging rights that night in the pub....