'A great day for Kilkenny' as riverside park and skatepark officially opened Former and Current Elected Members of Kilkenny County Council and Kilkenny Borough Council. F Reporter: '); Kilkenny's new Riverside Garden and Skatepark is officially open. Marrying the old with the new, the riverside garden leads us through the former St Francis' Abbey Brewery and into a modern skatepark that has been designed for and by our own skateboarding community who now have a park of their own The project provides a riverside walk from the Tea Houses at Bateman Quay to Greensbridge, with a temporary walkway provided in the area of the planned new Urban Park around St. Francis Abbey.