Ireland — Kilkenny Castle Interiors

Today we move inside Kilkenny Castle. I hope you enjoy the show, beginning with the State Dining Room:

And I’ll bet you wish you had a Library such as this one:

But the most impressive room by far at Kilkenny Castle is the Picture Gallery Wing. This massive wing was constructed in the 19th century:

You can see from the photograph above that the gallery takes up the entire upper floor of the wing. Natural light is brought into the gallery via a series of skylights that runs the complete length along the ridgeline of the roof. But the grandeur of this gallery includes a surprise, also along the ceiling. That would be the hand-painted beamed ceiling:

And then there is, of course, the exquisite artwork of the collection:

I shall leave you today with this final image of this statue just beyond the westside entrance to the castle: