KIERAN STREET, KILKENNY
A substantial building of national significance having origins in the mid fourteenth century, thereby representing an important element of the archaeological heritage of Kilkenny. Despite a series of alteration works over the course of subsequent centuries the building continues to exude a medieval character in the streetscape on account of the restoration by Colm O'Cochlain (n. d.) of attributes including mullioned window openings in cut-limestone frames displaying high quality stone masonry. Originally known as Kyteler's Hall the building remains of additional importance for the...
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Also known as: Kytelers Inn, Kyteler's Hall, Kieran Street, St Kieran's Street, Dame Alice Kyteler, Nicky Flynn, JD Flynn, The Top Bar
When the ECB came to Kyteler's
When Christine Lagarde and the ECB Governing Council visited Kyteler's Inn in May 2024, armed and plain-clothes Garda security around Kieran Street made the usually busy pub's entrance unusually controlled. The group received an Irish evening of dinner, sean-nós singing and dancing, whiskey tasting and bodhrán lessons.
Kilkenny came together for Lagarde's visit to Kyteler's · 2024-05-30
The talking ghost beer tap
For Halloween 2016, a talking 'Ghost of Sully' beer tap at Kyteler's Inn startled visitors, chatted them up and demanded the barman warm his hands before pouring. Kilkenny People reports it was a Sullivans brewery/RTE The Fear promotional prank.
Haunted beer tap puts the frighteners on visitors to Kilkenny City pub · 2016-10-30
Alice Kyteler and Petronella de Meath
Kyteler's Inn is associated with the site of Alice Kyteler's home. Local historical reporting records that Alice fled the 1324 prosecution, while her servant Petronella de Meath was tortured, condemned and executed; that distinction should remain explicit in any pub-page copy.
On this day in 1324, Petronella de Meath was burned at the stake in Kilkenny · 2022-11-03
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Established
Built between c.1250 and c.1300.
Architecture
A substantial building of national significance having origins in the mid fourteenth century, thereby representing an important element of the archaeological heritage of Kilkenny. Despite a series of alteration works over the course of subsequent centuries the building continues to exude a medieval character in the streetscape on account of the…
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