01 Nov A Scarecrow Festival Video
Watch all the thrills and spooky delights Leap village enjoyed so far and what is going to happen this weekend. Read the programme on http://leapvillage.ie/scarecrow-festival/2018-y/...
Watch all the thrills and spooky delights Leap village enjoyed so far and what is going to happen this weekend. Read the programme on http://leapvillage.ie/scarecrow-festival/2018-y/...
A demon policeman is directing traffic, there are freshly dug graves in the middle of the village, and a coven of witches danced in the streets over the weekend. Even dropping into the local for a quick pint has become a bit of a nightmare — to...
The fourth annual Scarecrow Festival gets underway in Leap this weekend. Having started out as a simple idea to keep the village alive during a quiet time of the year, it now attracts people from all over the country FUELLED by ‘furry biscuits,’ Leap is once...
Charlotte Donovan and family are the overall winners of the 2016 Leap Scarecrow Festival, which attracted thousands of people to the West Cork village over the October bank holiday weekend. Their creation featured a bird with an eyeball in its beak and eyes that light up...
A West Cork village is named after an athletic achievement that happened 400 years ago: this must be an unusual appellation… The next stop after Skibbereen on the N71 road going east to Cork is Leap. Locally, this settlement is always called ‘Lepp’ – perhaps in defiance...
Some 1,000 ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties are already invading a rural West Cork village in advance of Hallowe’en. A horrible host of cadaverous creatures is starting to arrive in Leap — and within days, locals warn, skulking skeletons will join the blood-soaked headless women,...
There are well over 100 scarecrows dotted around the village of Leap for this week’s Scarecrow Festival, and hundreds of passers-by are pulling in to view the variety of lifelike creations on show. Some of the creative additions introduced to the village in recent weeks include...
Pictured with her dragon at Leap Co Cork was artist Ann Maria Surdu getting ready for the annual Leap scarecrow festival that shall see scarecrows on display throughout the village with Judging of the best scarecrow on 29th October and burning of the scarecrows on...
A WITCHES’ coven gathered for a celebratory dance in Leap last Sunday night – happy to be here despite the fact that Storm Ophelia and Storm Brian had blown them off course. Slowly but surely the scarecrows started to arrive too and take up pride of...