craft centres around north killkenny

A delightful craft centre, café and forest walk. Signposted....

Crafts Council of Ireland; training centre for young crafts persons and designers in ceramics, textiles, jewellery, leatherwork and other disciplines; Gallery open to the public....

Situated within a superbly restored Tudor Merchant's house, Kilkenny Brass Rubbing Centre is unique in Ireland. Anyone can create, with our guidance, images spanning the history of Ireland and N. Europe - using materials which we provide. No special skill or experience is needed. Our beautifully engraved brasses, from which the rubbings are made, depict figures from Viking, Norman, medieval, Tudor and stuart ages. Each participant takes away a brass rubbing, min. 18" x 10", which they...

Variety of hand crafted items by local crafts people....

Wool and wool products have been closely associated with the Graig-na-managh area for many hundreds of years. In fact, the wealth of the great Cistercian Abbey of Duiske, around which the town later grew, was largely based on the export of wool. Later, the arrival of Flemish weavers led to the establishment of local enterprises for the production of various woollen fabrics. Their successors still make woollen goods in the town which are sold throughout Ireland and exported to many parts of...

Studio/workshop complex for small craft enterprise....

Chesneau Leather Goods....

Some of Ireland's finest studio workshops are clustered in the scenic valley of the River Nore, in the heart of County Kilkenny, and one of the best ways of sampling this tree-lined, hill and vale area is to meander slowly along the way. Many top stores worldwide have found inspiration in these small, high quality Irish Workshops....