Roscommon  Lamb  Festival

Roscommon.      Tel:  087 933 7637   

Email: info@roscommonlambfestival.com    Web: www.roscommonlambfestival.com

Roscommon Lamb Festival started in 2008, organised by a committee of local farmers, restaurant owners and community groups. The vision for the festival was to “highlight the quality of locally-produced food and to attract additional tourists to Roscommon thus boosting the local economy and benefiting primary producers and suppliers”. This is still the case with the added vision of creating an internationally recognised festival in the Northwest of Ireland and an annual celebration for the people of Roscommon and its visitors.

Based on the fact that Roscommon has the highest lamb output per acre in the country, the festival celebrates lamb in a diverse range of food and farming events over the course of the weekend. This event is being organised in order to increase awareness of the festival, promote lamb as a dish and generate business for participating establishments in all sectors.

Festival 2020 Postponed.

Following a committee meeting on Wednesday night we took the decision to postpone our festival due to the fallout from the coronavirus outbreak. As it turned out we would have been forced into making this decision the next day anyway. This is obviously dissapointing for all who had planned to take part in or visit our festival. We will be looking at the possibility of rescheduling a shortened version later in the year all going well. Failing that we will be planning as usual for 2021. We take this opportunity to thank all our funders and sponsors and hope that they will be back on board when things get back to normal. Meanwhile all we can do is heed the advice of the experts to help minimise the impact of the virus to our families and friends. Stay safe.