Your Christmas Markets

The rare owl times

ure, you never know what you’ll find at a Wicklow Christmas market…

With everything from woolly hats and wobbly homebaking to original paintings and alpaca teddy bears on offer, you can get your entire Christmas shopping list sorted in one day.

It’s the fact that much of what’s on offer is homemade that makes a Christmas market so special.

These chancers are your neighbours, the ones with arty skills and an aversion to a real job. So, you know, they need your support…

We’ll no doubt be adding to this list as time goes on, as yet another pop-up pops up on our radar.

In the meantime, grab your Christmas wish list and go have a great day out at one or more of these fine festive freakouts…

Late arrival into our inbox is the news that some Santa magic will be sprinkled over Newcastle on Sunday 5th, with a Christmas Pop-Up Market at the community centre. Happening from 12pm to 4pm, Santa will be there from 2pm, and entry is free, baby…

Happening every Saturday and Sunday from 12pm to 4pm, the Alpaca Mini Christmas Market is certain to give you that fuzzy festive feeling inside, with not only their own unique nativity scene and a chance to feed our woolly buddies, but also lots of cuddly and unique gift ideas. And admission is free, baby, and the gang will be there every Saturday and Sunday up to December 19th.

Time once again to enjoy The Good Life, as the artisan farmers’ market sets up its Christmas stalls at Fishers of Newtownmountkennedy on Thursdays December 9th and 16th, from 3.30pm to 8pm. And the order of the day is your perfect, locally-crafted Christmas present that will not only be handcrafted but unique. Details here…

Always worth a visit, the Signals Arts Centre have their daily Christmas market running all the way up to December 24th. Open from 10am to 5pm daily, this is a chance to grab some local arts and crafts and curiousities without breaking the piggy bank. Find ’em here.

Attempting a two-woman Christmas market, Danielle has her Pom Pom Pirates kids clothes and Roisin O’Riordan has her Grá Blooms at The Boat Yard on Saturday 11th and 18th from 10am to 4pm. Noice.

With no apparent Enniskerry Christmas Market this year, there is the one-day Follow The Star Festival & Market follows on Saturday 11th at the Powerscourt Church & School. Mary and Joseph will be leaving St Mary’s Church at 4.30pm, trekking through Enniskerry village to the live crib at Powerscourt Church. Been hard to source more info that that, but you can try Ye Olde Facebook here.

Adding plenty of sparkle to our world every year, the Wicklow Christmas Indoor Market is happening at  Leitrim Place from 10am to 7.30pm on December 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th & 21st (and now on into January). And sure, beyond the market they have Santa Express and an eco ice skating rink. BOOM! 

A little closer to home, the Killruddery Christmas Market has it all, running from 10am to 5pm every Saturday and Sunday up to Christmas Day, plus Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd.

Or you can make a day out of it up at Belmont Demesne, with over 70 Irish designers at The Design House, gift cards, food trucks, bike trails and those lovely life-affirming walks up around The Little Sugarloaf. Open seven days a week…

Belmont Demesne

And don’t forget to grab yourself a fine, the mighty Dermot O’Brien over at Knockroe Farm on the road to Kilcoole (with donations from every tree sale going to The Gavin Glynn Foundation), and Santa’s Indoor Christmas Fair over on Sea Road, just before Kilcoole beach, offering hot drinks and snacks, Christmas trees and Santa’s grotto every Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 6pm.

There are others a little more out of town too – including the a one-day Christmas Market at Purple House Charity Shop on Bray main street from 11am to 1.30pm on Saturday 11th, the parish of Kilbride, Barndarrig & Brittas Bay having their one-day Santa love-in on Sunday 5th from 12pm at Saint Mary’s National School, the Turquoise Café Market in Roundwood running every Sunday up to the big day from 11am to 4pm, and Russborough House & Park hosting their Community Pool for West Wicklow Outdoor Christmas Market on Saturday 11th.

Suffice to say, step away from the internet and go get all your Christmas shopping right here, right now. Ya lazy feck.