The Greenfields Festival — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

1–3 Mar 2027 (3 days)

Location

Ballykilcavan Estate, Unknown, Unknown

Sound

pop · dance · tribute · live bands

Tickets

€22 – €142 · 2 tiers tracked

Line-up announced

2 artists so far

The story

The Greenfields Festival is a 2-day outdoor music festival held over the May Bank Holiday weekend at Ballykilcavan Estate in Stradbally, County Laois, Ireland. The festival features over 90 acts across five stages, showcasing a mix of pop, dance, tribute, and live bands. As a family-friendly event, it includes additional attractions like a food village, bars, vintage carnival rides, art installations, and options for on-site camping and glamping.

The Greenfields Festival is a 3-day pop, dance, tribute, live bands festival at Ballykilcavan Estate in Unknown, Unknown. The March 2027 edition runs 1–3 Mar 2027.

Announced so far: The Tumbling Paddies and Nathan Carter. Expect stages split between pop, dance, tribute and live bands. The line-up is spread across the 3 festival days, so a full-weekend ticket is the only way to catch every name.

Everything happens at Ballykilcavan Estate, in Unknown. Unknown is the base for the trip: it is where the affordable beds, the late trains and the after-parties are, and where prices climb fastest as the dates approach.

The Greenfields Festival keeps the same calendar slot each year: March 2027 for this edition, opening on a Monday and closing on a Wednesday. It falls in spring, ahead of the summer festival rush, which usually keeps travel cheaper than the July and August dates. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Unknown are priced for the festival weekend, not the week around it, so shifting your arrival by a day often saves more than any ticket tier does.

• Over 90 acts across five stages
• Includes food village and bars
• Family-friendly atmosphere
• On-site camping and glamping options

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to The Greenfields Festival works out at roughly €1,100 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 2% of that: the rest is getting there and sleeping somewhere, which is exactly the part most ticket sites leave out.

Cheapest travel we price is air · 14h 2m each way, at €937 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at The Greenfields Festival are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
2. 2Then price the travel from Paris — Cinderella compares train, bus, car and flight for the same dates, and the cheapest option is not always the obvious one.
3. 3Reserve 4 nights rather than 3: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4Follow The Greenfields Festival on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.

Line-up, day by day

• Day 1 — Monday 1 March

  The Tumbling Paddies

• Day 2 — Tuesday 2 March

  Nathan Carter

• Day 3 — Wednesday 3 March

  Line-up to be announced

Full line-up

Ordered as the poster reads it — headliners first, then most booked to least. Each name opens that artist's festival dates.

Past editions

Dates are the event's recurring calendar slot, so treat them as approximate — the organiser keeps the official archive.

• 2026

  1–3 Mar 2026 (approx.)

  Regulars: The Tumbling Paddies, Nathan Carter

• 2025

  1–3 Mar 2025 (approx.)

  Regulars: Nathan Carter

• 2024

  1–3 Mar 2024 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

• The site itself is Ballykilcavan Estate, in Unknown.
• Book a bed in Unknown early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• air14h 2m · €937