• Our Ring Around Ireland
    St Canice's Cathedral was built in the early 1200s — Kilkenny, Ireland.
    Looking down the nave towards the sanctuary — St Canice's ... Kilkenny, Ireland.The Great East Window behind the altar — St Canice's ... Kilkenny, IrelandCloser look at the Nativity panel in the Great East Window — St Canice's ... Kilkenny, Ireland.The left panel was reproduced as a Christmas stamp, thus traveling around the world — St Canice's.Window by Harry Clarke, Ireland's foremost stained glass artist — St Canice's ... Kilkenny, Ireland.Our first Celtic Cross in Ireland ... the cemetery @ St Canice's — Kilkenny, Ireland.

    St. Canice's ... aka Kilkenny Cathedral

    June 20, 2019 in Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 59 °F

    After climbing the Round Tower, located on the grounds of St Canice’s Cathedral, we used the combo admission ticket to go inside.

    The early 13th century church is in the Gothic style. It was constructed on the grounds of a Celtic Christian monastery that was founded in the 6th century by St Canice ... hence the name by which the Kilkenny Cathedral is known.

    St Canice’s is described as Ireland’s finest medieval cathedral and close. I’ll have to wait and see a few more cathedrals as we travel around Ireland before I can verify that. However, if the stained glass windows are anything to go by, that description just might be accurate.    Read more