Cathedral Church of St Canice & Round Tower

St Canice's Cathedral, additionally referred to as Kilkenny Cathedral, is a cathedral of the Church of Ireland in Kilkenny city, Ireland. It is within the ecclesiastical province of Dublin. Previously the cathedral of the Diocese of Ossory, it's miles now certainly one of six cathedrals within the United Dioceses of Cashel and Ossory. The gift building dates from the thirteenth century and is the second one longest cathedral in Ireland, after St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Beside the cathedral stands a a hundred toes ninth-century round tower. St Canice's tower is an example of a nicely-preserved 9th-century "Celtic Christian" spherical tower.

It is dedicated to St Canice. It is considered one of simplest three such medieval round towers in Ireland that could still be climbed to the pinnacle, the other being Kildare Round Tower in Kildare Town and Devenish Round Tower in County Fermanagh. The cathedral stands at the website online of a Celtic Christian monastery said to had been based within the sixth century with the aid of St Canice as a daughter house of Aghaboe Abbey.