77 High Street Kilkenny R95 WK37 and, 41 Kieran Street R95 TX98 Kilkenny, Kilkenny.
Refurbishment of a protected structure to create hotel rooms, a cafe-bar, and retail space.
2560599 · Kilkenny County Council · Lodged 17 September 2025
- Reference
- 2560599
- Authority
- Kilkenny County Council
- Register status
- Decided
- Type
- PERMISSION
- Received
- 17 September 2025
Summary
AI-generatedThis application seeks to refurbish a protected structure on High Street and Kieran Street. The project includes creating 8 hotel-style rooms, a setback third-floor extension, a licensed cafe-bar restaurant, and converting retail space into a reception.
- Storeys
- 4
Generated from the description above by an AI model and may contain mistakes. The council’s description is the authoritative record.
Official record
Development description
For refurbishing the existing property (a protected structure) to incorporate 6 no. Hotel style rooms in 77 high street connected to no. 76 high street at 1st and 2nd floor levels, to construct a setback 3rd floor level extension to no 77 high street, to provide a licenced cafe bar restaurant at ground and lower level of 77 high street, to provide a further 2 no. Hotel style rooms at 1st and 2nd floor levels of 41 kieran street and to covert the ground floor level of 41 kieran street from retail use to reception and retail
Land-use zoning
What this land is zoned for
“To provide for general development”
National zoning type: City/Town/village Centre, central area
Objective set by the Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027 (2021–2027). The planning authority decides each application on its own merits — this is the zoning context, not a compliance assessment.
Read the zoning objectives in the development planBuilt & sold
What happened next
Beyond the decision: whether this development was built, and what property here has sold for.
Recent sales nearby
within 500 m| Address | Date | Price | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 2, Hendy's Flats, 2 Chapel Lane | Jan 2025 | €82,500 | 68 m |
| Flat 3, Hendy's Flats, 2 Chapel Lane | Jan 2025 | €82,500 | 68 m |
| Flat 1, Hendy's Flats, 2 Chapel Lane | Jan 2025 | €82,500 | 68 m |
| Flat 4, Hendy's Flats, 2 Chapel Lane | Jan 2025 | €82,500 | 68 m |
| 7 Wesley Court, William St, Kilkenny | Dec 2025 | €180,000 | 143 m |
| Murphy'S Woolen Hall, 11 High Street, Kilkenny | Apr 2026 | €150,000 | 152 m |
| 16b William St, Kilkenny, Kilkenny | Apr 2026 | €252,000 | 158 m |
| 5 Colliers Lane, Kilkenny, Kilkenny | May 2025 | €255,000 | 162 m |
Nearby properties, not this site — a guide to local values.
Sources: Building Control Management System (commencement notices) and the Residential Property Price Register, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Records are matched to this application by location and may not be exhaustive; always confirm against the official source before relying on them.
Key dates
Timeline
- Application received17 September 2025
- Further information requested11 November 2025
- Further information received17 May 2026
- Decision due13 June 2026
- Decision issued10 June 2026
- Grant issued13 July 2026
- Permission expiry12 July 2031
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