K-Fest and Puck Fair add up in Killorglin

Art and music will be found in all sorts of places at Killorglin’s K-Fest this weekend, Neil Browne tells Ellie O’Byrne

EVERY year in August, the town of Killorglin indulges a strange and ancient custom; the crowning of King Puck.

Four years ago, a group of artists and musicians decided to bring a second festival to the town; a multi-disciplinary arts festival to inject new life into the many vacant properties that years of rural decline had brought to Killorglin by putting them to use as pop-up gallery spaces, theatres and concert halls.