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Top 10 Tourist Attractions In Kilkenny By Visitor Numbers - 1. Kilkenny Castle Parklands , 2. Kilkenny Castle, 3. Nicholas Mosse Pottery,

There is little trace of the medieval market town of Newtown left visible to the eye. Only some scattered ruins within the green fields beside Jerpoint Abbey gi...

Finally, scientists might have discovered the real tomb where Santa Claus is actually buried. Professor Dr Osman Eravşar, the president of the Antalya Cultural Heritage Preservation Regional Board, made this shocking announcement last week. A group of experts believe that the body of Santa Claus is buried beneath the floor of a church in Turkey. According to the research, he was buried in a fourth-century AD church in Turkey's Antalya province.

Just a 20-minute drive south from the town of Kilkenny, Ireland, an abandoned medieval village is rumoured to harbour a mysterious Christmas legend.

As we look forward to Santys visit this Christmas Eve, Robert Hume trawls through the archives to find Father Christmas has been making the headlines for many years

RTE podcast reveals how the lost town of Newtown has been revealed with state of the art scanning technology

Opportunity to discover the lost medieval town of south Kilkenny

When the famed Jerpoint Abbey was a thriving religious centre the nearest settlement wasn’t Thomastown but the village of Newtown. Today, however, where o...

Kilkenny tourism welcomes re-opening of outdoor attractions Kilkenny tourism welcomes re-opening of outdoor attractions Kilkenny Tourism has welcomed the Government’s announcement that outdoor attractions can re-open at the end of the month, writes Shauna McCrudden Jerpoint Abbey After months of closures and lockdowns, many of Kilkenny’s best-loved family attractions, cultural sites and parks are commencing to re-open from April 26th. With travel restrictions about to ease heading into th...