The Circuit Court sits during four law terms each year: Hilary, Easter, Trinity, and Michaelmas. The information below sets out the confirmed sittings for each county in the Western Circuit — covering Galway and Mayo — for 2025/26.
Galway Circuit Court sittings – 2026
Law terms: Hilary: 12 January – 27 March; Easter: 13 April – 21 May; Trinity: 3 June – 31 July; Michaelmas: 5 October – 21 December.
Criminal sittings
- 26 January (5 weeks)
- 13 April (5 weeks)
- 8 June (2 weeks)
- 2 November (6 weeks)
District Court appeal sittings
- 18 March (3 days)
- 3 June (3 days)
- 15 December (3 days)
Civil sittings
- 13 January (4 days)
- 27 January (3 days)
- 24 March (3 days)
- 14 April (4 days)
- 12 May (4 days)
- 3 June (3 days)
- 16 June (4 days)
- 28 July (3 days)
- 7 October (3 days)
- 10 November (4 days)
- 17 November (3 days)
Sentencing sittings
- 20 January (4 days)
- 23 March (4 days)
- 18 May (4 days)
- 23 June (4 days)
- 20 July (1 week)
- 27 October (4 days)
- 15 December (4 days)
Family sittings
- 20 January (4 days)
- 3 February (4 days)
- 18 March (3 days)
- 19 May (3 days)
- 9 June (4 days)
- 28 July (3 days)
- 24 November (4 days)
- 18 December (1 day)
Clifden sittings
- 3 March (2 day)
- 30 June (2 days)
- 13 October (2 days)
Loughrea – Civil and Family sittings
- 25 February (3 days)
- 09–10 July (2 days)
- 21 October (3 days)
Loughrea – District Court appeal sittings
- 24 February
- 7 July
- 20 October
Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act sittings (ADMC)
- 20 January
- 17 February
- 20 March
- 27 April
- 18 May
- 16 June
- 17 July
- 20 October
- 17 November
- 15 December
Mayo Circuit Court sittings – 2025
Law terms: Hilary: 13 January – 11 April; Easter: 28 April – 5 June; Trinity: 18 June – 31 July; Michaelmas: 6 October – 19 December.
Ballina sittings
- 12 March (2 days)
- 6 May (1 day)
- 17 July (2 days)
- 16 October (2 days)
Castlebar sittings – Civil
- 6 March (2 days)
Mayo Circuit Court sittings – 2026
Law terms: Hilary: 12 January – 27 March; Easter: 13 April – 21 May; Trinity: 03 June – 31 July; Michaelmas: 5 October – 21 December.
Ballina sittings
- 11 March (2 days)
- 5 May (1 day)
- 16 July (2 days)
- 15 October (2 days)
Castlebar sittings – Civil
- 5 March (2 days)
- 10 March (1 day)
- 13 March (1 day)
- 28 April (2 days)
- 6 May (3 days)
- 2 July (2 days)
- 14 July (2 days)
- 1 December (1 week)
Castlebar sittings – Criminal
- 9 February
- 29 June (4 weeks)
- 5 October (5 weeks)
Castlebar sittings – District Course Appeals
- 30 April (2 days)
- 10 December (2 days)
Castlebar Family – District Course Appeals
- 13 January
- 21 April ( 1 year)
- 23rd June (1 week)
- 3 November (1 week)
- 8 December (2 days)
