Skerries Mills Harvest Time Festival 2026

What to Expect

Skerries Mills, the restored 16th-century windmill and watermill complex on Dublin’s north Fingal coast, marks the end of summer each year with its Harvest Time Festival. For 2026 the event runs across the last weekend of August, taking over the outdoor Crop Field beside the mills rather than the heritage buildings themselves. Expect live music, with The Ukeristics playing an afternoon set on the Saturday, alongside craft stalls, demonstrations and hands-on activities pitched at families and all ages. Weather permitting, there are working farming machinery demonstrations that connect directly to the site’s own history as a working grain mill, giving visitors a sense of the harvest traditions the festival is built around. A farmers market runs through the Saturday, adding local food and produce stalls to the usual festival mix, and the on-site Watermill Cafe stays open for refreshments across both days. It is a low-key, family-friendly way to close out the summer season rather than a ticketed spectacle, and it draws a mix of Skerries locals and day-trippers from across north Dublin.

Good to Know

• Dates: Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 August 2026
• Times: gates open 11:00am on Saturday and 10:30am on Sunday, with both days running to roughly 5:45pm
• Venue: the Crop Field at Skerries Mills, entered via the Mill Hill Park gates between the two windmills
• Price: general entry is free; face painting carries a small cash-only charge
• Recurrence: Skerries Mills runs a Harvest Time Festival every August as its main end-of-summer event, so check skerriesmills.ie nearer the date for future years’ programmes
• Parking around the site is limited, so the organisers encourage arriving on foot, by bike, or by train

Getting There

Skerries Mills is a six-minute walk from Skerries train station, which has regular Irish Rail services from Dublin’s northside city-centre stations. Dublin Bus and Go-Ahead Ireland routes also serve Skerries village, a short walk from the Mill Hill Park entrance, making the train or bus the easiest options on festival weekend.