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Kilkenny festival goers to Savour feast of culinary and artistic treats

By Kilkenny Now 13th October 2024 0

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

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Plans for large three-storey Airbnb complex beside Kilkenny’s Rothe House

By Kilkenny Now 7th September 2019 0

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

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BREAKING: €90,000 grants towards repair of fire-damaged Bridge House

By Kilkenny Now 28th March 2019 0

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 […]

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Travel bible National Geographic falls for Kilkenny’s medieval charms

By Kilkenny Now 14th February 2019 0

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”. […]