The Lough Gur Summer Solstice Festival celebrates the first day of summer and has been a local tradition for over 5,000 years. It is the perfect event that the whole family can enjoy, with a large calendar of fun activities to keep everyone occupied.
Enjoy an array of entertainment such as live music, pub quizzes and a céili. Children will love the circus skills workshop, the pet farm and craft market, and jugglers, magicians and bouncy castles. There will also be water-sport activities taking place such as kayaking on the lovely lake front.
Lough Gur is a picturesque location situated twenty minutes from Limerick City. With beautiful scenery, stunning landscapes and the wonderful Lough Gur Lake, it is the perfect family outing.
There will be organised guided walks which will showcase the true beauty of Lough Gur as it takes you along the hillside and shoreline trails, and there is a wide variety of birds to be seen along the way. Lough Gur has many archaeological and historical gems to offer and there will be a historic tour of the area where you have the many wonderful sites in the area.