{"id":16369,"date":"2018-07-05T10:04:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T09:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=16369"},"modified":"2018-07-05T10:04:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T09:04:56","slug":"castlewellan-show-a-great-day-out-for-the-whole-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2018\/07\/castlewellan-show-a-great-day-out-for-the-whole-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Castlewellan Show \u2013 A Great Day Out for the Whole Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday 14th<\/sup>\u00a0July, Castlewellan Show promises a great array of activities showing off the best of local agriculture, food, crafts and rural pursuits.<\/h1>\n

\"\"With dog agility, show jumping, cattle, sheep, goats, poultry, rabbits, pigs and home industries spread across fifty acres of Castlewellan Forest Park we are all set to offer a great day out for all the family.<\/p>\n

The Show offers a wonderful opportunity to enable children to get close to a range of animals with kid goats, lambs, kune kune pigs, NI Rabbit Club, hens and alpacas as well as an array of livestock.\u00a0 The goats will be occupying their usual location and again features the incredible cute pygmy pigs \u00a0\u00a0The pig section offers an opportunity to see some of the rare breeds and less familiar pigs. The rabbit and poultry tents are always busy and children can pet and hold the rabbits.<\/p>\n

Visitors will get a chance to try out felt making, weaving, straw making and watch demonstrations of threshing and stick making. \u00a0\u00a0The County Down Young Farmers are holding the final of the Build It competition alongside tug of war, tractor driving and water games.\u00a0 This year we have scheduled entertainment in one of the main rings with the Castlewellan Interchurch Choir and displays from Silverstream sheepdogs and East Down hunt.\u00a0 There will also be a live auction for a stay at the Kilmorey Arms, Kilkeel.<\/p>\n

The Mayobridge farm model display is back again along with the very popular Grass Lads miniature working farm machinery and the Seaforde Vintage Club which always attracts the young and not so young.\u00a0 Judges will be circulating for the Most Appropriately Dressed Lady and Gentleman with great prizes. \u00a0\u00a0There is a small pet competition with entries on the day.\u00a0 The Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service along with the PSNI will have their engines, liveried tractor, mobile police station and be putting on accident rescue displays as well as advising visitors on farm safety and crime prevention.\u00a0 The Farm Families Health Check unit will be on site and visitors can get on-the-spot Blood Pressure monitoring, BMI, cholesterol check and diabetic screening.<\/p>\n

Every year over 100 dogs take part in the dog agility classes, so bring a seat along and grab a good spot beside the ring.\u00a0\u00a0 Then head over to the Home Industries tent where you can peruse home baking, jams, crafts, photography, art\u00a0and the scarecrows. \u00a0We received over 1600 entries in our schools section including lots of Unicorns made from recycled material many of which will be on display. If all that makes you thirsty you can have a tea and scone in the Save The Children vintage tea tent or a stronger tipple at the bar<\/p>\n

Over 150 traders will be promoting agricultural machinery, environmental initiatives, livestock products, outdoor furniture, garden plants, farm toys, clothing and local crafts.\u00a0 This year we are delighted to have continuing support from DAERA NI Regional Food Programme and our local gourmet food tent includes producers of hand churned butter, cider, jams, chutneys, honey, tray bakes, infused vinegars, sauces and ice cream. \u00a0It will also host a qualifier for the ISA Young Home Cook\u00a0championship.\u00a0 The craft and information tent is packed with over 40 stalls selling jewellery, handmade cushions, clothes, wooden toys, paintings, baby items, skin products, pottery and stationery.<\/p>\n

Mossvale Riding Club are providing the unaffiliated show jumping with entries on the day.\u00a0 The main horse, pony and donkey classes have attracted in excess of 425 entries of high calibre with riders from throughout the island.<\/p>\n

Castlewellan Show is renowned for the quality of livestock with cattle, sheep, goat and pig sections.\u00a0 We are delighted to once again host the Danske Bank NISA Sheep champion final and we have a new Britmilk Beef Calf championship.<\/p>\n

We have over\u00a0750 sheep registered,\u00a0350 cattle, 60 rabbits and our largest ever entry of poultry with in excess of 400 birds so a competitive day is anticipated and a wonderful spectacle for those looking on.<\/p>\n

This year we will greet 40 visitors from Virginia Show as part of a cross border initiative and we look forward to showing them the best of Co. Down hospitality. \u00a0\u00a0The Show appreciates the ongoing support from EDA Media, Newry Mourne & Down District Council \u00a0and Tourism Northern Ireland along with all our other sponsors and aims to attract people from throughout the island to enjoy the Mournes area.\u00a0 The Show runs from 9am \u2013 5pm, admission is \u00a310 for adults, \u00a35 for Young Farmers (with their card), Under 16s go free and there is no charge for parking. \u00a0\u00a0For a full list of trade stands and attractions, go to the website\u00a0www.castlewellanshow.com<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday 14th\u00a0July, Castlewellan Show promises a great array of activities showing off the best of local agriculture, food, crafts and rural pursuits. With dog agility, show jumping, cattle, sheep, goats, poultry, rabbits, pigs and home industries spread across fifty acres of Castlewellan Forest Park we are all set to offer a great day out … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16371,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16369\/revisions\/16371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}