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
South Eastern Circuit — covering
Carlow, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Waterford, and
Wexford — for 2025.
Court sittings at all venues commence at 10.30 a.m. on the opening day of the sessions. Non-criminal sittings on this calendar may be subject to change.
Carlow 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.
Civil sittings
- 14 January (1 week)
- 6 May (1 week)
- 18 June (3 days)
- 21 October (1 week)
- 2 December (1 week)
Criminal sittings
- 18 February (3 weeks)
- 20 May (2 weeks)
- 15 July (3 weeks)
- 11 November (3 weeks)
Family sittings
- 4 February (1 week)
- 29 April (1 week)
- 24 June (1 week)
- 4 November (1 week)
- 2 December (1 week)
District Court appeal sittings
- 18 March (2 weeks)
- 7 October (2 weeks)
Carlow Circuit Court sittings – 2026
Civil sittings
- 13 January
- 21 April
- 16 June
- 20 October
- 8 December
Criminal sittings
- 17 February
- 24 February
- 3 March
- 12 May
- 19 May
- 14 July
- 21 July
- 28 July
- 10 November
- 17 November
- 24 November
Family sittings
- 3 February
- 28 April
- 23 June
- 27 October
- 8 December
District Court appeal sittings
- 10 March
- 17 March (3 days)
- 3 June (3 days)
- 6 October
- 13 October
Kilkenny 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.
Civil sittings
- 28 January (1 week)
- 4 February (1 week)
- 8 April (1 week)
- 15 July (1 week)
- 14 October (1 week)
- 16 December (1 week)
Criminal sittings
- 4 March (5 weeks)
- 29 April (3 weeks)
- 15 July (3 weeks)
- 18 November (5 weeks)
Family sittings
- 14 January (2 weeks)
- 13 May (2 weeks)
- 1 July (2 weeks)
- 11 November (2 weeks)
District Court appeal sittings
- 28 January (1 week)
- 27 May (1 week)
- 1 July (1 week)
- 28 October (1 week)
Kilkenny Circuit Court sittings – 2026
Civil sittings
- 10 February
- 17 February
- 14 April
- 14 July
- 6 October
- 24 November
Criminal sittings
- 24 February
- 3 March
- 10 March
- 17 March
- 24 March
- 5 May
- 12 May
- 19 May
- 14 July
- 21 July
- 28 July
- 17 November
- 24 November
- 1 December
- 8 December
- 15 December
Family sittings
- 13 January
- 20 January
- 28 April
- 5 May
- 30 June
- 7 July
- 10 November
- 17 November
District Court appeal sittings
- 27 January
- 21 April
- 30 June
- 3 November
Tipperary 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.
Clonmel sittings
Civil
- 21 January (2 weeks)
- 13 May (1 week)
- 8 July (1 week)
- 18 November (1 week)
Family
- 25 February (1 week)
- 29 April (1 week)
- 18 June (3 days)
- 21 October (2 weeks)
Criminal
- 4 March (6 weeks)
- 20 May (3 weeks)
- 15 July (3 weeks)
- 25 November (4 weeks)
District Court appeals
- 18 February (1 week)
- 4 November (2 weeks)
Nenagh sittings
Civil
- 18 February (1 week)
- 3 June (3 days)
- 29 July (3 days)
- 25 November (1 week)
Family
- 4 March (1 week)
- 27 May (1 week)
- 22 July (1 week)
- 9 December (2 weeks)
Criminal
- 14 January (5 weeks)
- 29 April (3 weeks)
- 18 June (3 weeks)
- 7 October (4 weeks)
District Court appeals
- 25 February (1 week)
- 8 July (1 week)
- 18 November (1 week)
Thurles sittings
- 4 February (1 week)
- 15 July (1 week)
- 11 November (1 week)
Tipperary town (sitting at Clonmel)
- 11 February (1 week)
- 6 May (1 week)
- 24 June (1 week)
- 7 October (1 week)
Tipperary Circuit Court sittings – 2026
Clonmel sittings
Civil
- 27 January
- 3 February
- 28 April
- 9 June
- 10 November
Family
- 20 January
- 21 April
- 16 June
- 20 October
- 27 October
Criminal
- 17 February
- 24 February
- 3 March
- 10 March
- 17 March (3 days)
- 24 March
- 5 May
- 12 May
- 19 May
- 30 June
- 7 July
- 14 July
- 21 July
- 28 July
- 17 November
- 24 November
- 1 December
- 8 December
- 15 December
District Court appeals
- 10 February
- 23 June
- 3 November
Nenagh
Civil
- 24 February
- 19 May
- 28 July
- 24 November
Family
- 20 January
- 21 April
- 16 June
- 20 October
- 27 October
Criminal
- 10 March
- 12 May
- 21 July
- 3 November
- 15 December
District Court appeals
- 24 March
- 7 July
- 10 November
Thurles sittings
- 3 March
- 30 June
- 17 November
Tipperary town (sitting at Clonmel)
- 13 January
- 14 April
- 3 June (3 days)
- 6 October
Waterford 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.
Dungarvan sittings
- 8 April (1 week)
- 3 June (3 days)
- 29 July (3 days)
- 16 December (1 week)
Waterford sittings
Civil
- 14 January (2 weeks)
- 25 March (2 weeks)
- 20 May (1 week)
- 1 July (1 week)
- 28 October (2 weeks)
Criminal
- 14 January (5 weeks)
- 11 March (5 weeks)
- 29 April (3 weeks)
- 18 June (3 days)
- 24 June (2 weeks)
- 7 October (5 weeks)
- 2 December (3 weeks)
Family
- 11 February (2 weeks)
- 6 May (1 week)
- 8 July (2 weeks)
- 7 October (1 week)
- 25 November (2 weeks)
District Court appeals
- 18 February (1 week)
- 3 June (3 days)
- 22 July (1 week)
- 11 November (1 week)
Waterford Circuit Court sittings – 2026
Dungarvan sittings
- 24 March
- 19 May
- 28 July
- 15 December
Waterford sittings
Civil
- 20 January
- 27 January
- 17 March (3 days)
- 5 May
- 3 June (3 days)
- 9 June
- 20 October
- 27 October
Criminal
- 13 January
- 20 January
- 27 January
- 3 February
- 10 February
- 17 February
- 24 February
- 3 March
- 10 March
- 17 March (3 days)
- 14 April
- 21 April
- 28 April
- 3 June (3 days)
- 9 June
- 16 June
- 23 June
- 30 June
- 7 July
- 6 October
- 13 October
- 20 October
- 27 October
- 3 November
- 1 December
- 8 December
- 15 December
Family
- 10 February
- 17 February
- 14 April
- 7 July
- 14 July
- 13 October
- 24 November
- 1 December
District Court appeals
- 24 March
- 5 May
- 21 July
- 17 November
Wexford 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.
Civil sittings
- 11 February (2 weeks)
- 1 April (2 weeks)
- 20 May (1 week)
- 18 June (3 days)
- 24 June (1 week)
- 14 October (2 weeks)
Criminal sittings
- 14 January (5 weeks)
- 4 March (5 weeks)
- 13 May (4 weeks)
- 18 June (3 days)
- 24 June (2 weeks)
- 7 October (5 weeks)
- 25 November (3 weeks)
Family sittings
- 11 March (2 weeks)
- 27 May (2 weeks)
- 22 July (2 weeks)
- 4 November (2 weeks)
- 9 December (1 week)
District Court appeal sittings
- 25 February (1 week)
- 29 April (1 week)
- 8 July (1 week)
- 18 November (1 week)
Wexford Circuit Court sittings – 2026
Civil sittings
- 3 February
- 10 February
- 24 March
- 12 May
- 16 June
- 23 June
- 3 November
- 10 November
Criminal sittings
- 13 January
- 20 January
- 27 January
- 3 February
- 10 February
- 17 February
- 24 February
- 14 April
- 21 April
- 28 April
- 5 May
- 3 June (3 days)
- 9 June
- 16 June
- 23 June
- 30 June
- 7 July
- 6 October
- 13 October
- 20 October
- 27 October
- 3 November
- 1 December
- 8 December
- 15 December
Family sittings
- 10 March
- 17 May (3 days)
- 19 May
- 21 July
- 28 July
- 13 October
- 1 December
- 8 December
District Court appeal sittings
- 3 March
- 12 May
- 14 July
- 10 November
