Irish Scout Jamboree
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Irish Scout Jamboree

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Year	Jamboree	Location	Dates	Camp Chief	Attendance	Notes

1948	Listowel Jamborette	Co. Kerry	28 July – 10 August	Michael Kennelly	500	The first Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland Jamborette with Scouts from Ireland, England, France, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Italy attending.

1960	Loc Rynn (Loc Rinn)	Mohill, Co. Leitrim	850	Boy Scouts of Ireland's 1st Irish International Scout Camp. It was featured on RTÉ.

1967	Lios Mór	Co. Waterford	18–29 July	James D. Hally	3,000	To mark the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland this national camp was held on the banks of the Blackwater river.

1968	Westport	Co. Mayo	30 July – 9 August	The Boy Scouts of Ireland celebrated their Diamond jubilee.

1977	Jamborora	Mount Melleray, Co. Waterford	26 July – 4 August	12,000 to 20,000	Celebrating the Golden jubilee of the Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland. Scouts from Ireland, Italy, Norway, France and the US attended the camp.

1978	Woodstock	Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny	1–10 August	5,500	Marking 70 years of Scouting in Ireland, the Scout Association of Ireland celebrated with Scouts from 20 different countries. President Patrick Hillery opened the Jamboree.

1982	Lakelands	Co. Fermanagh	This was the largest Scouting event to be hosted by Fermanagh Scouts.

1985	Portumna	Co. Galway	30 July – 8 August	10,000	To celebrate International Youth Year the Scout Association of Ireland hosted the event with help from the Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland, and the Scout Association of Northern Ireland.

1989	Gosford	Co. Armagh	25 July – 4 August	Wilson Lambe	3,000	The Scout Association of Northern Ireland hosted this jamboree with help from the Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland and the Scout Association of Ireland.

1993	Ballyfin	Co. Laois	27 July – 5 August	Kiernan Gildea	7,000	Scouting Ireland CSI hosted this jamboree with help from the Scout Association of Ireland and Scout Association of Northern Ireland. Scouts from Ireland, Australia, Canada and 15 European countries attended.

1997	Lough Dan	Co. Wicklow	2,000	Scouting Ireland SAI hosted jamboree at their national campsite. It was the last to be supported by both the Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland, and the Scout Association of Northern Ireland, each taking it in turns to organise one of the previous 3 events.

2008	Jamboree 2008	Punchestown, Co. Kildare	2–10 August	Christy McCann	12,500	Scouting Ireland's first international Jamboree, celebrating 100 years of Scouting in Ireland. Scouts from Ireland, Canada, the US, Europe, Asia and Australia attended.

2018	JamboRí 2018	Stradbally, Co. Laois	25 July – 2 August	Kiernan Gildea	4,000	Scouting Ireland's second international Jamboree. Scouts from Ireland, Canada, the US, Europe, Asia and Australia attended.

Sentence(s)

Ballyfin was an Irish Scouting Jamboree, which took place at the Co. Laois between 27 July and 5 August 1993.

final_sentence: Ballyfin was an Irish Scouting Jamboree, which took place at the Co. Laois between 27 July and 5 August 1993.