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My particular favourite is the Cow Dung Festival, also held in County Mayo. It is clearly an occasion for anyone with a taste for the bizarre.
A Cow Dung Festival Queen is selected - not perhaps an accolade you would readily put on your list of accomplishments. Then there is the highlight of the day - cow dung bingo. A field is divided into squares. When names are gathered and bets placed, Betsy - the festival cow - is ushered in
And yes, it is the squares on which Betsy decides to drop her cowpats that are the winners. It is all highly scientific - laser-measuring devices are used. The tension can be intense. 

Last year it took Betsy - obviously playing to the gallery - an hour-and-a-half of wandering before deciding where to do her business. 

This year blood pressures were eased, with Betsy lifting her tail after only 15 minutes and a lucky cow dung bingo-player walking away with the 1000-euro prize.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19597828