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Butler Gallery

Butler Gallery is an art gallery, museum in Kilkenny. The site offers a café. Look also at Kilkenny Castle, 400 m away.

Where

In Kilkenny

inside the urban area

How well known

Top 27%

#466 of 1,783 places we list

Warmest months

Jun–Sep

highs of 18–20°C

In brief

Museum in Kilkenny

Inside Kilkenny

Butler Gallery is inside Kilkenny’s urban area. Towns near it ↓

Written from Fáilte Ireland’s open data, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata and the CSO’s 2022 town outlines, with Met Éireann’s 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Weather by the month

The warmest afternoons in Kilkenny run June to September, at 18–20°C.

Jan9° / 2°83 mm

Feb9° / 2°63 mm

Mar11° / 3°63 mm

Apr14° / 5°59 mm

May16° / 7°58 mm

Jun19° / 10°65 mm

Jul20° / 12°65 mm

Aug20° / 11°74 mm

Sep18° / 9°69 mm

Oct14° / 7°94 mm

Nov11° / 4°90 mm

Dec9° / 2°89 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Kilkenny, and rain in a month. Met Éireann 1991–2020 averages for Kilkenny (Copyright Met Éireann, CC BY 4.0). Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Kilkenny’s full climate →

About

Butler Gallery

Art gallery, museum in Kilkenny, Ireland.

In Kilkenny, inside the town’s urban area.

Butler Gallery on Wikipedia ↗

Type: Museum
Town: in Kilkenny
Official site: butlergallery.ie

Facts: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0), Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

Plan your visit

Visit details

AddressButler Gallery, John's Quay, Kilkenny City

HoursTue, Wed, Fri, Sat 10:00–17:00 · Thu 10:00–20:00 · Sun 11:00–17:00

Entrance feesFreeNo entrance fee.

Address and hours: Fáilte Ireland’s open data and OpenStreetMap contributors. Hours change through the year: check its site before you go.

The map

Finding Butler Gallery

Numbered points are the places near Butler Gallery, which is in orange.

Towns near it

Where to base yourself

Of these 8 towns, the largest is Kilkenny (27,184 people). The towns are in order of distance, its own town first.

1 · It’s in town

Kilkenny

27,184 people · 22 places to visit

2 · 8.4 km southeast of it

Bennettsbridge

664 people · 3 places to visit

3 · 13 km east of it

Gowran

847 people · 2 places to visit

4 · 13 km south of it

Kells

291 people · 5 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Butler Gallery is	People	Places to visit
Kilkenny	It’s in town	27,184	22
Bennettsbridge	8.4 km southeast of it	664	3
Gowran	13 km east of it	847	2
Kells	13 km south of it	291	5
Stoneyford	13 km south of it	185	6
Freshford	14 km northwest of it	593	2
Callan	15 km southwest of it	2,678	1
Paulstown	15 km east of it	919	2

Make a day of it

More to see nearby

Look within 15 km for 2 castles, 2 museums and 2 abbeys or priories, among others.

CastleKilkenny Castle400 m away 2

CathedralSaint Marys Cathedral600 m away 3

MuseumRothe House & Garden400 m away 4

Abbey or priorySt Johns Priory100 m away 5

Abbey or prioryKilkenny Grey Friary400 m away 6

MuseumMedieval Mile Museum300 m away 7CastleCastleGrace's Old Castle300 m away 8Art galleryArt galleryThe Tea Houses200 m away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Asked about Butler Gallery

Where is Butler Gallery?

Butler Gallery is in Kilkenny, Kilkenny, inside the town’s urban area.

What is Butler Gallery?

Art gallery, museum in Kilkenny, Ireland.

When is the best time to visit Butler Gallery?

June to September are the warmest months in Kilkenny, with afternoon highs of 18–20°C (Met Éireann 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near Butler Gallery?

Within 15 km: Kilkenny Castle (400 m), Saint Marys Cathedral (600 m), Rothe House & Garden (400 m) and St Johns Priory (100 m).

Sources: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0), © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Wikidata (CC0), CSO 2022 town outlines (CC BY 4.0), Met Éireann 1991–2020 averages (CC BY 4.0).

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (6)

Kilkenny Castle: Tolivero~commonswiki, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Saint Marys Cathedral: Stevage, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
Rothe House & Garden: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
St Johns Priory: JohnArmagh, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Kilkenny Grey Friary: Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Medieval Mile Museum: A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).