Must-see shopping in Kilkenny City

  • Kilkenny Design Centre

    Kilkenny City

    Top-end Irish crafts and artworks from artisans county-wide are sold at this design centre. Look for John Hanly wool blankets, Cushendale woollen goods,…

  • Truffle Fairy

    Kilkenny City

    Truffles (such as cider or almond and mint), caramels (eg pecan) and other chocolates sustainably made in nearby Thomastown, where it has a second shop,…

  • Rudolf Heltzel Goldsmith

    Kilkenny City

    Originally from Germany, Rudolf Heltzel has been creating fine-art jewellery in Kilkenny since 1968, and now works with his son Christopher creating…

  • Valley of Roses

    Kilkenny City

    This pristine Parisian-style perfume boutique has an array of ready-to-go scents for men and women, made from ingredients such as cascarilla bark, ylang…

  • Folkster

    Kilkenny City

    A favourite of Ireland's most fashionable, Folkster has a chic ground-floor boutique selling its Irish-designed women's wear made from ethically sourced…

  • Essaness Music

    Kilkenny City

    Traditional Irish instruments at this long-standing music shop include uilleann pipes (Irish bagpipes), bodhrán goat-skin drums, fiddles, bouzoukis …

  • Kilkenny Book Centre

    Kilkenny City

    Kilkenny's largest bookshop stocks plenty of Irish-interest fiction and nonfiction, periodicals and a good range of maps. There's a cafe upstairs.