The Kilkenny County and City Open[1] was an open grass court tennis tournament founded in 1882 as the County Kilkenny Tournament[2] at Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland.
In 1884 the event was renamed as the Kilkenny County and City Tournament.
[4] By 1884 the tournament was renamed as the Kilkenny County and City Tournament,[5] and was held at the Kilkenny County and City Lawn Tennis Club, Archersfield, Kilkenny.
[6] The held up to 1920 when it was called the Kilkenny County and City Open.
[6] This tournament was predominantly an Irish affair, featuring notable Irish players such as Ernest Browne, Grainger Chaytor, May Langrishe and Mabel Cahill and English players such as Alfred Beamish, Jack Hillyard and Mabel Parton.