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Rathangan Will Be The Host Of Next Year's National Ploughing Championships

Friday, 18 September 2026 08:16

By Hannah Kelly

A section of the 77,000 attendance on day one at the National Ploughing Championships 2026. Photo: Eamonn Farrell/© RollingNews.ie

The National Ploughing Championships were founded in Athy, in 1931

The National Ploughing Championships will move to Rathangan next year.

Organisers of the event made the announcement yesterday evening.

The dates will be the 21st to 23rd of September 2027.

More than 243,000 people passed through the gates of this year's event - an increase on last year.

The event has been held in Screggan in Co. Offaly for the last five years.

The National Ploughing Championships were founded in Athy, in 1931.

Anna Marie McHugh, Assistant Managing Director of the National Ploughing Association, says it's the nature of the association to move venues.

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