East End St. Patrick's Day Parade Guide: Where They're Happening, and When

EAST HAMPTON, NY - It's that time of year when Irish eyes are smiling and everyone's ready for their little bit of blarney.

The East End has a wide array of St. Patrick's Day parades. Here's when they're happening, and where:

• The 12th Annual Cutchogue St. Patrick's Day Parade kicks off Saturday, March 12 at 2 p.m. The Cutchogue-New Suffolk Chamber of Commerce, along with the Cutchogue Fire Department present the parade, which begins at the traffic light at Cox Lane, down Route 25, ending in Cutchogue Village at the Cutchogue New Suffolk Library. The parade will include pipe bands, Irish step dancers, marching bands, community groups, horses, fire departments, and more.

• The 49th Annual Westhampton Beach St. Patrick's Day Parade also takes place on Saturday, March 12, with step-off at noon at the corner of Oneck Lane and Mill Road at the Westhampton Beach Middle School and wends its way up Main Street.

• The 8th Annual Am O'Gansett St. Patrick's Day Parade steps off at noon on Saturday, March12 at the corner of Mary's Marvelous, then turns around and heads back once it reaches Stephen Talkhouse. It's dubbed the world's shortest parade, but is long on fun.

• 10th Annual Hampton Bays 2015 St Patrick's Day Parade takes place on March 19 from 11:00 a.m. to 3 p.m., kicking off at the Hampton Bays Elementary School at 72 Ponquogue Avenue, then heading to Montauk Highway and west to the reviewing stand and ending in the Hampton Atrium parking lot.

• The East End Emerald Society presents the 3rd Annual Jamesport St. Patrick's Day Parade on March 19 at 2 p.m., heading from North Railroad Avenue and Washington Avenue to the Jamesport Fire Department.

• 54th Annual Montauk St. Patrick's Day Parade takes place on March 20 at 11:30 a.m. with family-friendly floats and fun including green face-painting, grabbing foam shamrocks and shillelaghs to wave on the parade, and collecting lucky beads and candy tossed from the floats of hometown businesses and fire trucks. Long Island bagpipe bands will march in the parade, which starts on Edgemere Street, to South Edison St and enters Main Street at the east end of town.