Pubs, Hotels, Bars and Taverns in County Kilkenny, Ireland

Kilkenny's brewing roots are said to reach back to the friars of St Francis Abbey, whose grounds became home to Smithwick's in the early 1700s. The beer was brewed there until 2013, when production moved to Dublin, and the abbey ruins survive on the old brewery site. In 2016, descendants of the Smithwick and Sullivan families revived Sullivan's ale in the city. Kyteler's Inn carries the name of Dame Alice Kyteler, accused of witchcraft in 1324, who fled while her servant Petronilla de Meath was burned at the stake.