Welcome to GOREY AGRICULTURAL SHOW
The Committee of Gorey Agricultural Show would like to welcome you to our website. We are delighted to be open for business again after our cancellation last year. We were forced to make the uneviable decision to postpone due to weather conditions and later cancel when a date could not be secured. We would like to thank all of you for your support and your patience as we worked through the refund system.
Preparations are well under way for our 2025 show, and again we are located at Ashton, Ballycanew, thanks to the continuing support of the Hardy Family. We would like to thank all our sponsors who supported us last year, and are kindly supporting us again this year. We are very grateful to our Main Sponsor, Tirlan who are behind us again for 2025. Gorey Agricultural Show are massively thankful to the Department of Rural and Community Development for their grant support brokered by the Irish Shows Association, this funding is invaluable to country shows, and many would not run without it.
This year we hope to be bigger than ever, entries are open for competitions and trade stands, please familiarise your self with the online system, this is the only way you can enter, and entries will not be taken on the day, with the exception of the Dog Show.
The site is spread over 3 fields, you enter the car park & trade stand field, cattle, sheep and pony games are in the next field, and the horse and pony classes are in the 3rd field.
We have a massive selection of competitions, from pony showing to scarecrows. Many thanks to Clone Agricultural Consultants for sponsoring this competition again, it was a great success in 2023 and a very lucrative prize fund of €500. We will have a massive selection of trade stands, big and small, ranging from machinery to crafts. We will have live entertainment on stage throughout the day, with many food stands and also a bar. We will have amusements for the kiddies and face painting will be on offer also.
Please note entries close on the 14th June.
Entry costs €10, students €5 with ID, children 12 and under are free but must be accompanied by an adult. Please follow all signage, and respect all our volunteer stewards. Dogs are very welcome but must be on leads at all times. Do not climb barriers - they have a purpose. Bins are provided for litter, and we will have 'return' bins for bottles and cans. Gorey Agricultural Show ask that you leave the Show Field as you find it.
Enjoy your visit.
News
TIRLAN - MAIN SPONSOR 2025
The Committee of Gorey Agricultural Show are delighted to announce that Tirlan have agreed to remain as Main Sponsor for our 2025 show,and launched our 2025 schedule on Monday last in the Loch Garman Arms. We are extremely grateful to Tirlan, and their Chairman John Murphy for their continued support. Tirlan is a brand that everybody is familiar with, and a huge employer both directly and indirectly in Ireland. Gorey Agricultural Show are very proud to be associated with them.
POSTPONEMENT UPDATE
UPDATE - we are presently trying to secure an alternative date for our Show, and are in communication with The Irish Shows Association, our Landowners and Suppliers. July is a busy month for shows in this area and we are looking towards the end of July now. We are still hopeful of running and will issue an update as soon as a date is confirmed. We would ask that all competitors and trade stand applicants bear with us in the interim.
SHOW POSTPONEMENT
Following yesterdays decision to postpone Gorey Agricultural Show are liasing with The Irish Shows Association in an effort to secure a new date. We are hopeful that we will have positive news. We are conscious that we were to hold various qualifiers, we hope to be able to run these, and if not they will be redistributed to other shows. In the event of the date not suiting or indeed falling victim to the terrible weather again we will start the refund process. Gorey Show Committee are massively dissapointed that we had to postpone, as such an amount of work and organisation goes into all agricultural shows, but unfortunately the weather was the dictator in this case. Our advice to exhibitors at the moment is to be patient and wait for the Good News!
Gorey Agricultural Show has had a variety of homes over the years, Ashton was our location between 1995 to 2009 and now we have returned by kind permission of Mrs Anne Hardy & Family. The Hardy Family are well associated with Gorey Agricultural Show and we are very grateful to them for facilitating us.
Ashton is very well located on the main Gorey to Wexford Road, near exit 23 on the motorway.
We would like to express our thanks to Tirlan who are our main sponsor again this year, and thanks to Chairman of Tirlán, local man John G Murphy for finding time in his schedule for our photoshoot in Ashton. Glanbia is synonymous with Agriculture and well represented locally with branches in Ballycanew & Kilmuckridge.
This year’s show will take place on the 15th June, our committee are working very hard behind the scenes to ensure that this year’s show will be bigger and better. Having had no agricultural shows for 2 years our 2022 and 2023 shows were a great success and very well attended, we are confident that this years show will surpass last year. We pride ourselves on providing a fun filled family day out, with equestrian classes, cattle & sheep showing, craft competitions, pets corner, dog show, vintage and amusements. Our schedule is available online at www.goreyagriculturalshow.com where you can enter online. Closing date for entries is 7th June.
We are currently taking bookings for trade stands, please see the Trade Stand Tab at the top of the page. Please check the contacts page if you have a query, each section has a number you can call.
The Scarecrow competition was new last year, sponsored by Clone Agricultural Consultants we are hoping that this class will appeal to the 'field artists' out there and are hopeful of lots of entries. It's open to all so we are expecting a great display.
Keep and eye on this site and our Facebook page for updates. We are also planning a sustainability section, hugely relevant in these times, if you have ideas for a business or are an existing business please get in touch with us.
Horse Shows, Dog Shows, Food Tent, Live Music and Dancing, Competitions, Arts & Craft, Amusements, Vintage, Pony Games, Cattle & Sheep Showing, Children's Competitions, Pets Corner, Poultry. All classes this year are enter online, you must register online with the Vintage section to be allocated a space, the only section where you can enter on the field is the dog show.