Where to stay for Slane Castle

The two shows are ten weeks apart, and everything else on this page applies to both: the same hillside, the same road closure, the same coaches and the same hotels. Only the dates and the daylight change.

Both links open Friday to Monday, because the road closes at half twelve on concert day and arriving that morning is risky. Everything further down this page opens without dates, so you can price either weekend.

2027 stage times aren't published yet. The times below — gates at 15:00, last entry 21:30, finish around 23:30 — are from Luke Combs' 2026 show.

Camping is banned on the concert site, and there's no official camping anywhere. So everyone at the concert — 160,000 people over the two nights — needs somewhere else to sleep.

Nearby, there are three small campsites. Slane Farm Camping is 300 metres from the concert grounds and was selling Friday-and-Saturday tickets for 2027 at €66.08 when we checked, with Sunday sold separately. Slane Farm Hostel has camping from €12 per person and dorm beds from €25, and says prices vary on concert weekends. Rock Farm is across the river — twenty minutes there, forty minutes back through the village. It hadn't opened 2027 sales, and it takes no under-12s, no pets and no caravans; motorhomes must be on site by 8pm Friday.

For Oasis, the camping goes on sale the same day as the tickets. That's Slane Farm Camping's own notice, and it means the September pitches are decided over the same weekend as the gig tickets rather than months later. If you want to camp, sort it then.

Ranked by how you get home after the show, not by the rooms — for this concert, that matters most.

Links here open without dates, because 2027 has two Slane weekends. Use the dated links in "Two concert weekends in 2027" above to price a specific one — Friday to Monday in both cases, since the road closure makes arriving on the day risky.

Hotels, guesthouses and campsites in Slane, Navan, Drogheda and the wider Boyne Valley. Distances are approximate road distances to the castle, not walking routes.

"Book direct" means the property isn't on Booking.com, so the link goes to its own website. We don't earn anything from these bookings. Where we couldn't find an official booking page there's no link, and you'll need to contact the property yourself.

Late June is usually Ireland's warmest time of year, but nothing is certain. June 2026 was exceptional — Phoenix Park had its warmest June in 127 years, and Dunsany in Meath set a new record for its highest minimum temperature, 19.3°C — yet Met Éireann still recorded above-average rainfall at every station. Expect warm and bright, but pack for rain.

September is the bigger difference, and it's the light rather than the temperature. We calculated sunset at Slane for both weekends: 22:01 in late June but 20:10 in early September, nearly two hours earlier. A show finishing around 23:30 ends in late twilight in June and in full darkness in September — which matters for the twenty to thirty minute walk back to a car park across sloping grass and gravel. Bring a torch for the Oasis weekend, and don't rely on your phone.

The site is a steep grass-and-gravel hill above a river, umbrellas are banned, and the walk back to the car takes twenty to thirty minutes before a two-hour queue to get out. Wear boots and bring a hooded waterproof.

Part of Oasis Live ’27 — every date on the tour. The next weekend is Knebworth, six nights from 11 September.

Slane is a one-off. Two venues with the same problem every season are Scarborough Open Air Theatre, where the last train leaves thirteen minutes after the show ends, and Eden Park in Auckland, where Sunday concerts can now run to 11pm on the night the trains stop earliest.

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