Hole In The Wall Kilkenny

Hole In The Wall Kilkenny Pub & former music venue set in the heart of Kilkenny City. Since 1582. The Hole In The Wall is a bar & music venue situated in the heart of Kilkenny City.
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It is housed in the oldest surviving townhouse in Ireland - the 1582 Archer Inner House, 17 High St. The Elizabethan building with its tavern, snug and Archer room has been fully restored over the last 10 years and is open to visitors for the first time in hundreds of years. Hole In The Wall is available for hire for private parties, functions, conferences and all occasions. The Archer room situated upstairs is the perfect venue for intimate music gigs and lavish banquets! Music: Heathers, Simon Fagan, Little Black Wren, Juliet Turner, Mick Hanly, Aisling De Cleir, Liam O' Maonlai, John Spillane, Jamie Lawson, Clive Barnes, Ronan O' Snodaigh, Tom Kirwan, JP Ryan, Donal Dineen, Rhob Cunningham, Katie Kim and many more have played in the upstairs Archer Room. For venue bookings www.holeinthewall.ie

28/09/2026

Hopefully not to be needed.

28/09/2026

Magic!

28/09/2026

Dunne's the guy.

24/09/2026

Brill. In Blenheim. Grey sky - pity

Kilkenny was rather interesting last evening. Ghost town. In fear. Most bars closed. As per Monday night. A concern that...
23/09/2026

Kilkenny was rather interesting last evening.

Ghost town.

In fear.

Most bars closed. As per Monday night.

A concern that imbibing and interring might too potent a mix be?

The Garda strategy to limit pub opening was generally acquiesced to. And all was well.

Hole in the Wall did open and a few Americans, Canadians and English found it.

Discussions were of university department level thanks to engineers, Canadian w**e makers, and Charlie from Google. The latter led to analysis of AI. One example of the weakness in the technology was discussed. Someone recently jumped on the promotion of Ireland and its history bandwagon. And posted a piece about the invention of the stethoscope. There's a new addition almost weekly of late - all plagiarising the research insight thanks, in the main, to Prof Davis Coakley (1992). As can be expected, the AI technology derived its imagery for 1851 stethoscopes from the numerous images on the Internet. As a result it presents an inaccurate picture. In order to write reliably about the topic anyone posting must have done proper personal research. The inaccuracy of the article demeans the strength of the message.

It looks as though Google etc have no methods whereby an inaccurate account can be neutered.

Recently, a description of the history of the stethoscope surfaced on Groc. It was very detailed. The search engine had assimilated all the digital uploads. It credited none of the inceptive researchers such as Davis Coakley. And raised question - why bother publishing? The AI guys will only take one's discoveries and monetise them for themselves.

Another fascinating evening at Hole in the Wall.

22/09/2026

Music of the sound!

It's strange how the mind works. An idea arises. It should be dismissed.But somehow it lingers in the subconscious. And ...
22/09/2026

It's strange how the mind works.

An idea arises.

It should be dismissed.

But somehow it lingers in the subconscious.

And surfaces with further questions over time - on waking.

Is it from genetic memory?

In choosing a topic for the exploration of song origin recently, the horse somehow came into focus. And the basis of a ZingSpiel 'Horse Fever' emerged.

What's surfaced could be the basis of a PhD. With twenty + chapters.

It lead to an interest that emerged when one met a polo family at Chetwood, Oxfordshire in the 1980s. Membership of Kirklington Park Polo Club followed. J, who was expert re ponies, observed once how the heart rate of the pony in waiting would increase markedly as its moment arrived to join a chukka. Timed excitement - rearing to go! A pony landed on top of a middle aged exponent of the sport one day - he ended up in the JRII (John Radcliffe Hospital) under our care. He was amazingly stoical about any injury and couldn't wait to get back in the saddle. The image of young paraplegic men in wheelchairs positioned in a line to the right - inside a lavish marquee at a black tie summer polo ball - lingers.

You have to be mad, or bravely out of your mind, to mount a horse late in life against such indelible memories. And that of one's cardiology boss who broke his collar bone on falling off a horse. He couldn't do angiograms for weeks after! I had to give up accordingly.

The teacher at one's first lesson last week observed "Is this a bucket list thing?" As she watched nervously.

I suppose it is. But it seems to be a trigger for genetic memory? On my mother's side her 1800s cousins were instrumental to Galteemore winning the Derby. Genetic horsemanship memory must be in most people since the horse was so central to life up until motorised vehicles took over from the turn of the last century?

More triggering yesterday as stirrups, jockey whips and polo mallets were found in a dusty coach house in Limerick. Where a movie scene might yet be filmed.

A movie? There's a rabbit hole - "Old men re-doing what young me do".

And from it arises a question. How does a mechanical horse work? And could one be made? it turns out that such is already an industry.

With lessons from c€40.

My minder (PhD graduate) as I sat astride a calm old horse last week advised that I'd feel it in 2 days. Yep. Like clockwork - upper inner thighs. Two days of Kango-ing 4 densely concreted window opes to make space for wooden sash windows will presumably be felt in the biceps etc tomorrow?? Let's see. Fit enough!

Watch the jumper at Bletchington. Note her safety inflatable for back protection. Instant response.

22/09/2026

Hiberno-English? "Free from worms" - worm free . The latter is tight and stark. The former, with the two 'fs' flows more poetically?

22/09/2026

Watch the 'horse'. Not only does it go up and down, it sways from side to side too. A video should be up showing a stainless steel sculpture which has individual key movement too.

Address

17 High Street (rear)
Kilkenny

Opening Hours

Tuesday 12pm - 11pm
Wednesday 12pm - 11pm
Thursday 12pm - 11pm
Friday 12pm - 12am
Saturday 12pm - 12am
Sunday 12pm - 11pm

Telephone

+353878075650

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