Lecture: Hogan and Pearse, Benzoni and Lazzerini – The Making of St. Mary’s Cathedral
Due to the government guidelines helping to prevent spreading COVID-19, we have to cancel this event. a lecture by Very Rev. Father Richard Scriven Adm. Admittance fee is €10 for non-members, €7 for members of Kilkenny Archaeological Society.
The Capuchin Friars in Friary Street
Paddy Neary The first recorded reference to the Friars in Kilkenny is 1643, when they were granted accomodation in St John’s Abbey by the Corporation. In 1678 they had a chapel and convent in St John’s Abbey, the community consisted of three. In 1682 Fr. James Tobin procured a plot of “waste ground on the […]
Walkin Street
Paddy Neary Walkin Street was a very important thoroughfare before the Ormonde/ Callan road was built in 1817. Although narrow, it was the main entrance to the city from the Cork/ Callan direction. The earliest mention of the street is 1302, when a grant of a stone house to William Outlaw, (son of the famous […]