Ballybofey Farmers Market

What to Expect

Ballybofey Farmers Market trades every Friday from midday to 4pm in the grounds of the local GAA club. Stalls are run by growers, bakers and small food producers from the Finn Valley and central Donegal, selling fresh vegetables, home baking, preserves and other locally made goods. The four-hour afternoon slot is longer than most Donegal markets manage, and it is built around people finishing work rather than an early-morning crowd, so the last hour tends to be as busy as the first.

Ballybofey and its twin town Stranorlar face each other across the River Finn, and the Friday market is one of the fixtures that pulls people from both sides of the bridge into the same field. It sits neatly alongside the area’s other weekly draw, the livestock mart in Stranorlar, which sells cattle on Monday evenings and sheep on Wednesdays. Between the two, anyone spending a few days in the Finn Valley can take in both a produce market and a working cattle sale. Late summer and early autumn are the market’s strongest weeks for local growing, with soft fruit, potatoes and field vegetables coming in from within a short radius of the town.

Good to Know

• Next market: Friday 21 August 2026, midday to 4pm.
• Venue: GAA grounds, Ballybofey, Co. Donegal.
• Price: free to attend. Produce is bought stall by stall, so bring cash for smaller purchases.
• Recurrence: every Friday, year-round.
• Rossnowlagh Farmers Market runs the same morning further south, 10am to 1pm, so both can be caught in one day.

Getting There

Ballybofey sits on the N15 roughly midway between Letterkenny and Donegal Town, and Bus Eireann services along that road stop in the town. The GAA grounds are on the edge of the town centre with parking on site, which makes the market an easy stop for anyone already driving the N15 rather than a trip that needs planning around. Stranorlar is a two-minute drive across the bridge if you want to combine the market with a look around the twin town, and Letterkenny is about twenty-five minutes north.