Kilkenny’s First Senior Hurling Title
Kilkenny’s First Senior Hurling Title Patrick Neary After four previous attempts, a Kilkenny team achieved our first Hurling crown in June 1906 although this was the 1904 title. The match […]
Kilkenny’s Victorian Athenaeum
Kilkenny’s SECOND Athenaeum Edward J Law (2012) The original Athenaeum on the Parade, Kilkenny was the home of noted theatricals in the first two decades of the 19th century, but […]
Kilkenny Water Supply
A Public Water Supply For Kilkenny City Patrick Neary In the 1890s the sanitary condition of Kilkenny city painted a very poor picture. Water for every day use was sourced […]
Lady Desart and Kilkenny
LADY DESART AND KILKENNY Padddy Neary Miss Ellen Bischoffsheim was the eldest daughter of a London Jewish banker and her marriage to William, the fourth Earl of Desart on the […]
The Market Cross in Kilkenny
Peter McQuillan Hello, I’m Peter McQuillan. The Market Cross of Kilkenny If you mention the Market Cross in Kilkenny nowadays, most people will take it as a reference to a […]
Nuisances and Punishments
Nuisances and their punishment in eighteenth century Kilkenny Edward J. Law (2013) In the 1770s Kilkenny was a fashionable city, the centre of social life for the gentry of the […]
Postal Services in Kilkenny
Postal Services In County Kilkenny Edward J. Law (2015) In England and Ireland there was no general system of postage before 1635. In that year the Royal post was opened […]
Slate Quarries
St Francis Abbey Brewery
Take-over of Kilkenny Barracks 1922
Takeover Kilkenny Military barracks – 7th Feb 1922 Eamonn Kiely It is said that the old Dublin City could be reconstructed by a reading of Ulysses. If so, Kilkenny is […]