Heckscherville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States.

[3] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2), all land.

It is composed of the following villages: Greenbury, Coal Castle, Kanes Hollow, Pine Knot, Cherry Valley, Heckscherville, Upper and Lower Glen Carbon, Courtneys, Upper and Lower Buck Run and Rohersvilla.

The Payne brothers focused on the Queens and Kilkenny counties, and provided transportation, employment and homes to those who agreed to move.

Before the brothers returned to Payne’s Patch, the valley was populated almost entirely by Welsh with only a few scattered Irish families.

[6] The August Heckscher family from New York acquired the Payne brothers holding, and changed the name to Heckscherville.

The coal companies, due to a manpower shortage, began to bring into the region laborers from various countries in Europe.

This festival celebrated the settlement's Irish heritage, and was the main fundraiser for the village's Clover Fire Company.

Local hotels would often be completely booked during the weekend of the festival, with people coming from as far as Anchorage, Alaska.

A wide assortment of food vendors provided Irish comfort foods, including Irish stew, potato pancakes, soda bread, scones, and colcannon (a mixture of cabbage, onions, turnips, mashed potatoes).

Other acts who have performed during the festival include The Molly Wogs, Ceann, The Martin Family, The Irish Lads and Irishtown Road.

St. Kieran's is the only church whose construction the Bishop personally oversaw, traveling to the valley on three occasions to oversee the work.