Town of Thomastown
This town, in beautiful surroundings in the Nore valley, is named after Thomas Fitzanthony Walsh, Seneschal of Leinster, who built a wall around it early in the thirteenth century and erected a castle. The castle was destroyed by Cromwell in 1650. There are some interesting monuments among the ruins of a large thirteenth-century church contains the old high altar of Jerpoint Abbey. Also close to the town of Thomastown is the Mount Juliet Estate, home of the world famous championship golf course.
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This is a charming village with a tree-lined square, lying in a pretty part of the Nore valley where the river winds between wooded banks flanked by hills. An Augustinian priory was founded here in 1210 by Thomas Fitzgerald, and the nave, tower and adjoining Lady Chapel remain. Some monuments of the Tighe family are in the tower, including an effigy by Flaxman of Mrs Mary Tighe (died 1810), the authoress of Psyche. On a rock above the river at the village are the remains of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle.
Graigenamanagh, east of Kilkenny on the Carlow border, has a fine situation at a bend of the River Barrow, overlooked by 
Kilkenny is a very pretty and well laid-out town full of little winding streets and turn-of-the-century shop fronts, making it a perfect place to visit. Kilkenny (Bed and Breakfasts, Kilkenny, Ireland) has firmly recognized itself as the nations liveliest inland city, with non-stop entertainment throughout the sunny season and plenty enough craic, with some 100,000 international visitors passing through the city every year.