Town of Kilkenny
The central part of County Kilkenny is undulating limestone plain, bordered in some areas by gently sloping hills. In the north are the attractive uplands of the Castlecomer district, and the Slievardagh Hills and Booley Hills extend across the County Tipperary border on the west. There are many pleasant landscapes, especially in the Rivers Nore and Barrow valleys, and the historic county town has numerous points of interest. Kilkenny is also an excellent sporting county, with good opportunities for hunting, angling, shooting and golf. Kilkenny is famous for its hurling teams; the ancient Irish game is regarded and practised almost as an artform in the county.
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The west doorway of the church at Freshford, Co. Kilkenny, which dates from the early twelfth century, is a beautiful specimen of Irish Romanesque architecture. The arch is of three orders, and on each side of the spring of the outer arch is a curious carving, one of a horseman, the other of two figures. A church was built at Freshford in the seventh century by St Lachtain; this has entirely disappeared. St Lachtains Holy Well is still pointed out, it is a few hundred 
yards from Freshford, beside the road to Kilkenny (Bed and Breakfasts, Kilkenny, Ireland). The shrine of St Lachtains arm, a bronze shrine, in the form of an arm and hand, of twelfth-century date, is preserved in the National Museum, Dublin. Covered with interlaced scrolls and zoomorphic work, it has incised upon it an Irish inscription. Formerly it was kept at Donaghmore, Co. Cork, by the parish priest as a relic, upon which oaths were sworn ; afterwards it came into the possession of Sir Andrew Lontaine : it was purchased by the government at the Lontaine sale tor A monastery was founded early in the seventh century by St Goban Fionn, at Killamery, on the extreme west of Co. Kilkenny (Self Catering, Kilkenny, Ireland), along the borders of Co. Tipperary. No traces of this foundation remain, bill there are some monuments in the graveyard, of which the most interesting is the High Cross.