page_title: Kilkenny Castle
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Kilkenny Castle / History
caption_attribution_description: View of Kilkenny Castle in Ireland from John's bridge, with the castle overlooking the river Nore. Photo by Stevage (Wikipedia username).
context_page_description: Kilkenny Castle is a castle in Kilkenny, Ireland built in 1195 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 the Kilkenny Campus of National University of Ireland, Maynooth have been held there since 2002.
caption: The castle seen from the nearby River Nore.
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