Transport for Ireland

St Brigids Festival Kilkenny Music & Arts @ Kilkenny Castle

31/01/2025 - 03/02/2025

  • Date -
  • Location Kilkenny Castle, The Parade, Dukesmeadows, Kilkenny, Ireland

Kilkenny City is hosting St Brigids Festival of Music and Arts

featuring Music by:

  • Broken Canter
  • Bren Berry with Mark McCausland
  • Roseanne Reid
  • The Kilo 1977
  • Mother Tongures & Collapsed Adult
  • Poor Creature
  • Alchemy Vox
  • and Moot Tapes present Elaine Howley , and Polypelt

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Theatre and Literature with

  • The Quiet Land
    • Two elderly farmers, Eamon and Nashee, meet at a gate on a remote hillside. These men are old friends, old rivals, old neighbours. They are men of heart, of humour, of hardness. Their conversation is a throwback to a gentler time, when silence was as telling as declaration, and meaning was more often found between the lines than on them.But – there’s nothing gentle about today’s conversation.
  • Kilkenny Haunted Dark tours
    • Exclusively for St Brigids Festival, this tour will concentrate on historical female figures in Kilkenny, delve into their story and help us to understand how they live
    • Meeting at Kilkenny Castle main entrance

Use the TFI journey Planner / TFI Live App to plan your route.

Public transport

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From Dublin to Kilkenny

717  (J.J Kavanagh)

Dublin Busaras to Ormond Road, Kilkenny
(via

  • Stop 10995, Heuston Station, Heuston Station
  • Stop 11059, Red Cow Luas, Newlands (Dublin)
  • Stop 10330, Newpark Hotel, Friarsinch, kilkenny
  • Ormond Road, Kilkenny

600 (by Dublin Coach) Dublin to Kilkenny (MacDonagh)

  • Depart from Stop 339, Burgh Quay, Dublin City South
    600 Towards Andersons Quay (Cork)
  • via Stop 11056, Red Cow Luas, Newlands (Dublin)
  • Arrive at Stop 10326, MacDonagh Junction, Kilkenny

Also 600 to/from Cork, Waterford city, Dungarvan to Kilkenny (MacDonagh)

In Kilkenny:

City Direct – Kilkenny City Bus services

City Direct operates two routes in Kilkenny City on behalf of Transport for Ireland.

  • Route KK1 runs from Loughboy Retail Park to the N77 Rounabout, servicing Upper Patrick Street, McDonagh Junction, and Castlecomer Road.
  • Route KK2 runs from Purcellsinch to St Lukes Hospital, servicing Dublin Road, Newpark Shopping Centre, McDonagh Station, Nowlan Park, and Loreto.
  • Both the KK1 and the KK2 routes share a path through the city centre, servicing Parliament Street, Market Yard, and John Street Upper.
  • For more information, please see here.

Use the TFI journey Planner / TFI Live App to plan your route.

Irish Rail provide great links to Kilkenny from Carlow, Kildare, Dublin and Waterford – and connections from all over the country.

Kilkenny city centre is a short walk from MacDonagh Junction, Kilkenny

To plan your journey see visit the Iarnród Éireann Irish Rail website for timetables and routes.

Use the TFI journey Planner / TFI Live App to plan your route.

Kilkenny Castle, The Parade, Dukesmeadows, Kilkenny, Ireland
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