Keep checking in on this page as we regularly publish short, blog-type posts about subjects of historic interest regarding Kilkenny City and County.
We will also add useful digital resources for those interested in studying local history.
OKR 2024
AuthorTitlePages Ómacháin PádraigThe Book of Pottlerath in Context7 Tierney AnnMary Jane Butler of Callan in 17th century Europe19 Breen PatrickJames Switsir Kk Businessman and Philanthropist 1741-180631 Cunningham JohnGrand opening of [...]
OKR 2023
AuthorTitlePages Nolan PatAspects of the Kilkenny Tipperary Border7 Ó Drisceoil ProinsiasThe Johnswell Gaeltacht18 Knox JohnJohn Hume and St Canice' Credit Union29 De Weck LaurentJames Bernard O'Dunne (1714 - 1794)34 Lucey [...]
OKR 2022
AuthorTitlePages Hull GrahamA Medieval Charcoal Production Pit, near Piltown12 Nolan PatKilkenny's Charitable Institutions13-22 Kennedy NedMichael Egan (1895 -1956) Playwright and Author23-33 Ó Drisceoil ProinsiasAmhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin (1783 - 1838)34-43 O [...]
Geoff Rose – Patrick Kavanagh in Kilkenny
Patrick Kavanagh in Kilkenny Geoff Rose “This is a terrible place, Kilkenny is a terrible place, a terrible place entirely.” Not exactly the most poetic words for Ye Faire City, […]
Edmund Fitzpatrick 1822-1896
https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Ned-Kennedy-RIP-Edmund-Fitzpatrick-Artist.mp3 Ned Kennedy (RIP) My name is Ned Kennedy and I would like to tell you about the artist and illustrator, Edmund Fitzpatrick. The bicentenary of the birth of artist […]
The Canal Walk
https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Nicholas-Maher-The-Canal-Walk.mp3 Nicholas Maher, and takes account of previous research prepared by the late Edward Law There is a general consensus that the Canal Walk came into being about 1763. The […]
. . . YOU CAN ROLL IT AGAIN THERE, JACK!
https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Geoff-Rose-Roll-it-again-Jack.mp3 Geoff Rose Going to the cinema is one of the pleasures of city living, a chance to escape from the reality of life to the celluloid world of the […]
Kilkenny’s Smallest Shop
https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Geoff-Rose-Local-History-History-Kilkennys-Smallest-Shop.mp3 Geoff Rose As you walk down the very narrow High Street in Kilkenny these days, near the end of the street at its junction with James Street, you can […]
William the Earl Marshall (c.1146 – 1219)
https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Paddy-Neary-William-Marshall-01.mp3 Paddy Neary The Marshall with his wife Isabel de Clare transformed the Lordship of Leinster by the sword but also through the establishment of castles, churches, towns and strategic […]
The Wake of Bryan Reilly
https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Paddy-Neary-The-Waking-of-Brian-Reilly.mp3 Paddy Neary In the 1830s there lived in Walkin Street a man named Bryan Reilly. He occupied the house for over forty years, which was in later years (1880s) […]