Timahoe Heritage Festival – is inspired by the Viking raid on Timahoe in the year 919 AD. Celebrations will include a 10Km Viking Road Race, Storytelling with Eddie Lenihan, a big dig and lots more fun events. The festival is also about sharing the story of a village in Co. Laois, that is steeped in centuries of history; from monks, monasteries and Vikings, to the famine and the War of Independence.