Please help me plan our 3 nights in Kilkenny

susan · Senior Member

Please help me plan our 3 nights in Kilkenny

Michele Erdvig · Host

Susan,

You will need time to see Kilkenny itself. I suggest taking a guided walking tour from the tourist office or using Corey's free walking tour: http://www.knockahopple.com/downloadkilkenny.html

Some places to see in Kilkenny:

St. Canice's Cathedral

Black Abbey

Kilkenny Castle

Rothe House

Outside Kilkenny:

Inistioge village

Woodstock Gardens

Kells Priory

Jerpoint Abbey

Dunbrody Famine Ship in New Ross

Scenic R700 route

Castlecomber Discovery Park

Dunmore Cave

That should be plenty to fill your time. For more suggestions, pop into the tourist office.

Michele

tony2phones · Guru

Being Ireland Beer and music have to fit in somewhere

http://www.kilkennytourism.ie/brewery_tours

http://kilkennytradtrail.net/

Green Dragon · Guru

Michele has pretty much covered it! I love Kilkenny - such a sweet little city. We had a great evening of live trad music at Kyteler's Inn, just down the alley from the castle. Across the street is a great sandwich shop, Marble City.

Rothe House is a Medieval Merchant's Museum down along the high street - something a little different.

Inistioge is the village much of Circle of Friends was filmed in, a movie with Minnie Driver, based on the Maeve Binchy book (worth a read!)

Kells is definitely a good exploration - but watch out for the sheep droppings! LOTS of sheep guard the place. We went on a drizzly day, and slick is even worse than dry :)

We stayed a week in Knocktopher Abbey, about a half hour away. It was a 14th century abbey turned resort, but they have a great restaurant in the 'vault'. It's on the way to Jerpoint Abbey, which is definitely worth some time. I've been there three times now!

Bertrand · Veteran Member

We used Corey's walking tour last year -- it was quite nice.

Bert

susan · Senior Member

Thanks Michele,Tony,Christie,and Bert

I think we will give the city of Kilkenny Wednesday afternoon and all day Friday.Thursday we will do a day trip on R700 to Jerpoint/Thomastown - R700 to New Ross.This sounds like an all day excursion.

Saturday we need to get an early start to Dublin its going to be a very busy weekend.

Thanks again

Susan

Michele Erdvig · Host

Don't forget to read my Blog articles:

http://irelandyes.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/ireland-friday-freebie-woodstock-gardens-and-arboretum/

http://irelandyes.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/ireland-friday-freebie-kells-priory/

Michele

susan · Senior Member

Well-We fell in love with Kilkenny!
All the suggestions where perfect,and we got to most of them.We toured the 3 cathedrals (went up the round tower),the castle,toured the brewery,and the home/garden across the street(?).The food and music was great-Zuni,cafe sol,marble city gastro pub and good music at Kytelers.
On our day trip we started with Jerpoint Abbey thru Inistioge then to Woodstock gardens to our last stop Kells priory(highlight of the day).
We stayed at The Pembroke - Great location,nice hotel with breakfast and parking included.
Thanks for all the inside info on Kilkenny ,we can not wait to return.

Susan

Michele Erdvig · Host

Susan,

Since it is my favorite "city" in Ireland, I'm delighted that you liked Kilkenny. If you have the time we would love to hear all about your trip. Are you going back again some time?

Michele

susan · Senior Member

Michele,
Yes Kilkenny is a city.We had a chat with a women who turn out to be the Mayors wife,and she said they don't like to be called a town.
I wish I was as talented a writer as Bob is because our trips are alot like his.Visiting,visiting,and more visiting(lots of tea and snacks,and sometimes whiskey-you can't say no).The cousins are very stealth about paying the check,that we don't even know it is happening.The area our family is from is very small.By day 2 everyone knows we are there,and we better not miss anyone in our visits because we will hear about it next visit.

Are we going back -How can we stay away.We are finally empty nesters and can let cheap air fare dictate when we go. I check the airfare every day with an app I have,October is looking reasonable.

Thanks again
Susan