Kilkenny, Ireland

Kilkenny city is the seat of County Kilkenny in the "sunny southeast" of Ireland.

Kilkenny is an Anglo-Norman town, established at the end of the 12th century on an important intersection of a river and a road, and close to a long-established monastery.

King James I declared Kilkenny a city in 1609.

Dame Alice le Kyteler
Wealthy medieval Kikenny woman convicted of witchcraft...

Rose Inn Street
The Anglo-Normans, a 1798 rebel, and weekends after hours....

"Lads, where's the golf club?" ...

Kilkenny Castle
Anglo-Normans in 1172 established a fortification....

Songs and drink
"Yeah — they're Dubs." Dubliners. He predicted they would sing "Molly Malone." ...

Complexity of ownership in historic laneway and resultant chaos...

St. Canice's Cathedral
A structure from the early Norman period on the site of ancient monastic settlement....

Pre-Viking monastic round tower
Adjacent to St. Canice's Cathedral, an ascendable thin spire is the oldest part of Kilkenny city...