County Kilkenny

Kilkenny city (population: 22,000) is famous for its many mediæval buildings and night-life. It is Ireland's only in-land city.

Kilkenny has been referred to as the Marble City for hundreds of years, but the black stone with decorative white fossils that forms the backbone of many of Kilkenny's fine buildings is actually polished limestone which has been quarried from around the city for centuries.