Kyteler's Inn

Kyteler's Inn (/ˈkɪtlər/)[3] is a public house located in the centre of medieval Kilkenny in Ireland.

[6] A restoration was carried out in the late 1960s,[1] and the renovated building was blessed with water from St. Kieran's Well in the courtyard in 1967.

Archaeologist Conleth Manning expressed particular regret over this since the building has a "fine groin-vaulted undercroft" that makes a 14th-century date plausible.

Manning also condemns the removal of the "original stone stairs to the undercroft" and of the surviving "medieval roof timbers" without any expert examination.

[11] According to a New York Times article from the late 1970s, the entrance level was then "modernized drab, but down one flight of dark stairs is the 13th century".