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Balmoral Show

Northern Ireland's main agricultural show, four days each May at Balmoral Park near Lisburn, with large cattle classes.

A tile drawn for this day, not a photograph.

Cattle at Balmoral Show

The Royal Ulster Agricultural Society has held its show since the 1850s, at Balmoral in south Belfast for most of that time and since 2013 at Balmoral Park, on the former Maze site near Lisburn. Over four days in May it brings together the farming community of Northern Ireland, with beef and dairy cattle classes, sheep, pigs, horses and poultry, a food hall and machinery. Many breeds of cattle are shown, from the big continental beef breeds to the Irish Moiled, a native breed brought back from the edge of extinction. The interbreed championships on the final days draw the largest crowds round the ring.

The breeds

Holstein FriesianThe dairy cow of most Northern Irish herds.Irish MoiledThe rare hornless red and white cattle of Ulster.

Also part of it, and being written: Limousin cattle (A leading continental beef breed in Ulster.), Aberdeen Angus (A popular native beef breed.).

About this page

Written by the EveryCow desk with AI assistance. Background: "Balmoral Show" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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