Shopping30-45 minutes
Kilkenny Design Centre
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About
The crescent-shaped former castle stables, built around 1790, housed the celebrated Kilkenny Design Workshops from 1965 to 1988, the state-backed project that did more than anything to shape modern Irish design. Today the building is the flagship Kilkenny Design Centre, a store packed with the work of Irish makers in ceramics, knitwear, jewellery and homeware, with a restaurant upstairs. It is free to enter and a fine bit of architecture in its own right.
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Highlights
- ✓The 1790 crescent-shaped former castle stables
- ✓Former home of the Kilkenny Design Workshops, 1965 to 1988
- ✓Irish-made ceramics, knitwear, jewellery and homeware
- ✓Restaurant upstairs and free to enter
Tips
- →Free to enter, opposite the castle in Castle Yard
- →The upstairs restaurant is a handy lunch stop on the mile
- →Opening hours are seasonal; check ahead in winter
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