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Medieval Mile Street Tour

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Overview

This amazing tour departs from the reception desk at the Medieval Mile Museum where you also have all day access to. Our local expert guides will take you on a 75 minute stroll along the ancient streets of Kilkenny, returning to the museum along the High Street. Note: We have hand held audio sets so you can hear our guide speaking a little louder as you walk through the bustling streets.

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Meeting point

County Kilkenny, R95 K276, Ireland

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The Medieval Mile Museum is located off the main High Street on St. Mary's Lane. City centre location a 5 minute walk from the Kilkenny Castle

Language Offered

English-GUIDE

Itinerary

1. St. Mary’s Medieval Mile Museum

Let us know you have arrived at the reception of the Medieval Mile Museum. Then we start the tour outside.

Duration: 10 mins

2. Tourist Information Office (Shee Alms House)

Endowing an alms house could grant indulgences, easing the journey of the founder’s soul after death, and offering the same grace to those who prayed for him. Sir Richard’s foundation was carefully written into his will, ensuring that prayers for his soul would be said regularly by the residents.

Duration: 10 mins

3. Butter Slip

From here, goods arrived from across Ireland and beyond, and ships were loaded for continental markets.

Duration: 10 mins

4. Kyteler's Inn

In 1324, Kilkenny became the stage for one of the most infamous trials in medieval Ireland, the case of Alice Kyteler accused of being a Witch.

Duration: 12 mins

5. Kilkenny Old Jail and Courthouse

A courthouse now but once was called Graces Castle. The Grace family were one of Kilkenny’s most prominent Old English merchant dynasties — part of the influential Ten Tribes who dominated the city’s political, economic, and social life from the late medieval period into the 17th century

Duration: 10 mins

6. Black Freren Gate

In the Middle Ages, the city’s walls defined not just its defences, but its identity, marking the boundary between those who belonged to the civic community and those outside it.

Duration: 10 mins

7. High Street

This is a non-stop, casual stroll, with guides using this final stretch to share the story of St Marys Cathedral, the Tholsol and the Hole in the Wall.

Duration: 12 mins