Kilkenny Castle 2 - Kilkenny - Ireland
by Bruce Friedman
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Kilkenny Castle 2 - Kilkenny - Ireland
Artist
Bruce Friedman
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Photograph - Digital Photograph
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Kilkenny Castle as seen from the yard, with cherry blossom tree in foreground.
More from wikipedia:
Kilkenny Castle (Irish: Caisle�n Chill Chainnigh) is a castle in Kilkenny, Ireland built in 1195 by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke to control a fording-point of the River Nore and the junction of several routeways. It was a symbol of Norman occupation and in its original thirteenth-century condition it would have formed an important element of the defences of the town with four large circular corner towers and a massive ditch, part of which can still be seen today on the Parade.
The property was transferred to the people of Kilkenny in 1967 for �50 and the castle and grounds are now managed by the Office of Public Works. The gardens and parkland adjoining the castle are open to the public. The Parade Tower is a conference venue. Awards and conferring ceremonies of the graduates of "Kilkenny Campus" of National University of Ireland, Maynooth have been held there since 2002.
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