But some of the sport's big British names will be missing - Pippa Funnell withdrew both her horses over the weekend while Oliver Townend was eliminated after a fall on a day on which there were a succession of stoppages.
The canny heroism of a wild puck or male goat who alerted villagers to the arrival of Oliver Cromwell in the 17th Century is the supposed origin of the historic three-day Puck Fair in Killorglin, County Kerry every August, allegedly Ireland's oldest.