Kilkenny - Black Abbey Church

Parliament Street, running south from the Cathedral, crosses the little River Bregagh, the boundary between Kilkenny's Irishtown and High Town. On the right, in Abbey Street, are the Black Freren Gate (one of the old town gates) and beyond this Black Abbey Church, once the church of a Dominican friary, Black Abbey (c. 1230). Of the original church there remain only the nave, south transept (14th C) and tower (15th C). Notable features of the interior are a medieval alabaster carving of the Trinity and a crudely carved oak figure of St Dominic.