A pageant to savour: World and National Ploughing finals 2022

John Keohane, West Cork taking part in the mounted vintage class at the National Ploughing Championships at Ratheniska, Co. Laois. Picture: Dan Linehan.

A pageant of ploughing with yearnings for global peace will take place on the tillage fields of Ratheniska in Laois over three days next week.

The 91st National Ploughing Championships and the 67th World Ploughing Contest will be held on a 900-acre site, where a Cairn of Peace will be unveiled at the opening ceremony on Tuesday.