Kilkenny

Kilkenny is the Ireland of many visitors’ imaginations. Built from dark-grey limestone flecked with fossil seashells, Kilkenny (from the Gaelic ‘Cill Chainnigh’, meaning the Church of St Canice) is also known as ‘the marble city’. Its picturesque ‘Medieval Mile’ of narrow lanes and historic buildings strung between castle and cathedral along the bank of the River Nore is one of the southeast’s biggest tourist draws.