Sketching in the Gallery Kilkenny Castle is opening the magnificent Picture Gallery free of charge to artists who wish to sketch paintings from the Ormonde Picture Collection Booking required, contact kilkennycastleeducation@opw.ie to book your place, limited availability, this is an adult only event. Start time 15:00 to 17:00
🏰 Discovering Flemingstown at Kilkenny Castle Join us this National Heritage Week for a fascinating talk by The Discovery Programme exploring the results of the recent geophysical survey of Flemingstown, the lost medieval settlement hidden beneath Kilkenny Castle Park. Find out how archaeologists are uncovering the hidden history beneath the park and hear about […]
OPW Kilkenny Castle is looking forward to the Very Pink Run on Sunday 30 August taking place in the grounds. This year the Very Pink Run events are taking place in Dublin, Kilkenny and Cork. So join a Very Pink Run in Dublin at Leopardstown on Saturday 29th August, in Kilkenny at Kilkenny Castle Park […]
We are delighted to host National Services Day once again at the Castle Park on Saturday, 5 September 2026. A great day for all the family. Come along and meet the wonderful people behind all the frontline services both statutory and voluntary!!
Kilkenny Castle is delighted to take part in Culture Night once more. To celebrate Culture Night, the period rooms and exhibitions of Kilkenny Castle will be open to the public free of charge from 6pm to 9pm on Friday 19th September 2025 Please note last admission will be 8:30pm. No advance booking required. Admission will […]
OPW Kilkenny Castle is delighted to once again host a number of concerts with Music in Kilkenny. The new programme is available now www.musicinkilkenny.org The first of the concerts to take place at the Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle will be on Sunday 26 September at 7:30pm. The Lir Quartet : Siobhán Doyle - violin | […]
OPW Kilkenny Castle is delighted to once again host a number of concerts with Music in Kilkenny. The new programme is available now www.musicinkilkenny.org The next of these concerts will take place at the Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle on Sunday 4 October at 4:00pm. Performers: Róisín O’Grady - soprano | Sharon Carty - mezzo soprano | […]
OPW Kilkenny Castle is delighted to once again host a number of concerts with Music in Kilkenny. The new programme is available now www.musicinkilkenny.org The next of these concerts will take place at the Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle on Sunday 18 October at 4:00pm. Performers : Siun Milne - violin | Molly O’Shea - violin | […]
Seven hundred years ago, a Kilkenny woman was condemned as a witch. The records that survive were written by the men who prosecuted her. Alice Kyteler's own voice is nowhere in them. Bright I Burn gives it back to her. Molly Aitken's novel, a New Yorker and BBC Best Book of 2024, and shortlisted for […]
On 3rd November 1324, Petronilla de Midia became the first person in Ireland to be burned at the stake for the practice of witchcraft in a dark episode of Kilkenny's history that would have reverberations around the world for centuries to come. Burning Woman takes that story and asks: why is this story still relevant […]