Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
The Medieval Mile Museum occupies St Mary's Church, built around 1202 when the Normans settled Kilkenny and deconsecrated in 1957. Restored by Kilkenny County Council, it opened as a museum in 2017. Displays include the city's medieval civic records, replicas of Ossory high crosses, the Rothe family's 16th-century chantry chapel with carved tombs, and the graveyard.
Smithwick's Experience is a visitor centre on Parliament Street in the former St Francis Abbey Brewery, where Smithwick's ale was brewed from the 18th century until 2014. Franciscan friars brewed on the site before their abbey was dissolved during the Reformation. A guided tour covers the brewery's history and the brewing process.
Rothe House is a merchant's townhouse complex on Parliament Street, built by John Rothe Fitz-Piers between 1594 and 1610. Three stone houses linked by cobbled courtyards lead back to a reconstructed 17th-century garden and orchard, with a stretch of the medieval city wall. The Kilkenny Archaeological Society owns it and shows period rooms and local artefacts.
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