FREE August 2025 Events @ Wild Nephin
Ballycroy Visitor Centre
August Bank Holiday Weekend
Saturday 2nd August, the Wilderland artists will host their ‘Lúnasa Flower Féilire’ event. The day will start off with a grassland meadow habitat walk in the morning from 11am – 1pm, followed by refreshments and snacks in the upstairs classroom at the visitor centre, leading straight into the creative workshop 2pm – 4pm, where participants will be making the summer selection of plant prints on fabric. New and returning participants welcome! FREE entry, no booking required.
Sunday 3rd August, free wild flower seed collecting from 11.30am-1pm, followed by pond dipping activities from 2pm-3.30pm.
Monday 4th August, – FREE Dark Sky themed LEGO event, 11am- 4pm. This time the theme is “Constellation of Cottages”. Help us build unique cottages in our Dark Sky Park, just like the real ones in Wild Nephin. Illuminate each cottage in a dark-sky friendly way, in celebration of our award winning ‘Dark Sky Place of the Year 2024. No booking required and all welcome.
Wild Child Kids Club
Every Tuesday and Thursday 2pm-4pm. booking essential: To book, please email ballycroyvisitorcentre@npws.gov.ie with your name, child’s name and age and a contact phone number. Suitable clothing advised for all weather.
August
Tuesday 5th Plant Power – take a closer look at our amazing native plants.
Thursday 7th Habitat Homes – from bog pools to wild meadows and native woodlands.
Tuesday 12th Hedgerows and Hedge schools – the importance of hedgerows for nature and culture.
Thursday 14th Native Trees – follow the journey of a tree, from a tiny seed to a giant in a Native woodland.
Tuesday 19th Mini Beast Safari – come explore a hidden world of amazing creatures that live all around us.
Thursday 21st Brilliant Bats – learn about our beautiful bats and how we can help them.
Our FREE shuttle bus service operates Tuesday to Saturday between Bangor and Westport, with stop-off points at Newport, Letterkeen, Mulranny, Claggan Mountain Coastal Trail, and the Ballycroy Visitor Centre, until 30th August.
Friday the 15th August, 10am from Letterkeen Trailhead Car Park join us for a trek up to Jamsies Well for a HER Outdoors event. Booking essential. To book, please email ballycroyvisitorcentre@npws.gov.ie with your name, and contact number.
Heritage Week 2025
Saturday the 16th of August, Boxty in the Bothy and Dancing at the Crossroads, 1pm- 4pm, All Welcome
Join us at the Bothy in Letterkeen (in Shramore) beside the old crossroad that met the Bangor Trail. This was the old route into The Barony of Erris long before the modern road network was installed. Here we will have a gathering of the locals from the surrounding valleys as we celebrate our culture. There will be Irish dancing and music and traditional home-made boxy available for everyone to enjoy.
Sunday 24th August, Home to Erris, 1pm- 4pm, All Welcome
Join us as we celebrate a gathering at the old herd’s cottage up in Tarsaghaun on the northern section of the Bangor Trail. Here we will be joined by locals from Kiltane and Ballycroy as we come together in the old cottage beside the river as the Bangor trail takes us ‘Home to Erris’. This will be the rambling house experience as we come together to tell stories, sing a few songs and celebrate the people who went before us. Bus leaves outside Bangor Erris National School at 11.30am and Ballycroy Visitor Centre at 12.00pm.
These are FREE events open to the public and an opportunity to celebrate our history, our culture and our people.