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Plan your visit to Castlegregory and Brandon/Cloghane

The Dingle Peninsula from the air, with Castlegregory, the Maharees and Brandon Bay

The venues

Ballyquin, Brandon

Halla Le Chéile

Community hall near Brandon village, on the north side of the Dingle Peninsula, about 15 minutes' drive from Castlegregory. Sessions 1 & 3 take place here.
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Strand Street, Castlegregory

Aisling Cottage

In the heart of Castlegregory village, in the former home of the Original Kerry Shop, where in 2015 Cross Atlantic Productions was born.
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Good to know

Admission is free

All three sessions are free to attend, with donations warmly welcomed. Concerts begin at 7:30pm. Arrive a little early, as seating is informal and fills quickly. Come by bus. Park in Tralee, where parking is easy, and take Local Link route 273: leave the bus station at 17:32 and you are in Castlegregory at 18:10, in time to eat before Session 2 at Aisling Cottage. The last bus back leaves at 20:30 on Friday and Saturday, before the music ends, so plan to stay the night or share a lift. Times, stops and fares.

Register to learn of pop-up performances in the pubs and in spectacular natural settings on Dingle’s North Shore, in arrangements by Quatuor Ébène, the Danish String Quartet, Vision String Quartet and Philharmonix.

Guides to the north coast

Written for visitors
Where to stay on the north coastThere is no hotel on this coast. Everything we could verify, village by village, and why you should book now.Read → Where to eat and drinkRestaurants, pubs, takeaways and coffee, and when to book if you are eating either side of a concert.Read → Where to shopGroceries, craft and galleries. No petrol, no cash machine and no pharmacy in Cloghane or Brandon.Read → Things to see and doBeaches, walks, wildlife, the forest park, the golf links and the Harry Clarke windows.Read → Directions and parkingRoads, drive times, the two airports, the two-tonne limit on the Conor Pass, and where to leave the car at each venue.Read → Getting around the north coastThe 273 bus, the railhead at Tralee, taxis, the Conor Pass on a bicycle, and three stages of the Dingle Way.Read → Water sports on the MahareesSurf, windsurf, kitesurf, dive, paddle and sauna on Brandon Bay, which beach is for what, and where the lifeguards are.Read → The north coast in AugustWeather, daylight, what is in flower and what is passing Brandon Point, and everything else on in Kerry that week.Read → A short history of the north coastThe castle and the name, how the sand spit was made, the monastery on the island, Brendan, the Famine and the railway.Read → The Conor Pass national parkThe State bought the mountain. What that means, what is up there, and what a visitor will actually find.Read →