Art lovers attending this year’s Kilkenny’s Savour Food Festival can look forward to a visual feast to compliment the culinary treats on show. Organisers said this year’s festival, which takes place on the October bank holiday weekend, will feature “a range of art-themed events at Butler Gallery” that are “designed to engage and
By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY County Council has received a planning application for an Airbnb style development to be built right beside one of our most historical medieval buildings. The application proposes to build a three-storey building adjacent to the 17th-century merchant’s house and popular Kilkenny city tourist attraction, Rothe House. Martin Gittens, who made
BRIDGE House, Rothe House, St Canice’s Cathedral and The Thatched House in Clogh in Kilkenny will receive a total of €165,000 in grand aid funding, Minister and local TD John Paul Phelan has confirmed. They have been confirmed as 2019 recipients of the Government’s Built Heritage Investment Fund & Historic Structures Fund. The biggest grant is […]
SOME of Kilkenny’s best-loved landmarks and businesses have been singled out for praise in a special feature on Ireland’s Ancient East tourism initiative published by the global travel bible National Geographic. The in-depth article identifies Kilkenny as one of 10 towns in the east of the country that are “saturated in stories of the past”. […]