The story
Puck Fair Killorglin in Killorglin
A fixed three-day August fair in Killorglin, County Kerry, documented via a 1613 royal charter and centered on the ceremonial capture and crowning of a wild mountain goat as King Puck, alongside horse and cattle fairs and lively street entertainment, with three fixed named days, the Gathering, the Fair, and the Scattering, structuring the entire three-day event each August.
A wild goat captured from the MacGillycuddy's Reeks mountains is crowned King Puck by a local schoolgirl chosen as Queen of Puck and enthroned on a platform in Killorglin's town square for three fixed days each August, a ritual whose actual origins remain genuinely disputed despite documentary evidence tracing the fair back to a 1613 royal charter granted by James I.