Dame Alice le Kyteler, the original owner of this inn, was born in Kilkenny about the year 1263. The daughter of a norman banker, she was something of a 'sensation' in her day

Possessing enough charm and wiles to acquire four husbands and considerable wealth. Enough in itself, one might say, to inflame the petty jealousies of those who eventually sought her downfall through charges of witchcraft.

She was accused with various 'accomplices' and brought to trial in the year 1324 where she was condemned to be whipped through the streets and afterwards burnt at the stake.

We know that she escaped this horribly fate through the auspices of "certain of the nobility" who evidently conveyed her safety to England where she disappears from the pages of history.

Not so for her unfortunate 'accomplices' especially her maid Petronella who suffered the full measure of this medieval blood rite and were duly examined and executed as described above.

It is now accepted that most of the charges Dame Alice was accused of were 'trumped up' by various enemies as "merry widows" are want to acquire. That her house was a place of 'merrymaking and good cheer' is beyond doubt and today Kyteler's Inn has reverted to its old ways.

Here you can sup and eat with the choicest of fresh, home-made foods, and quality wines and beers to suit the 'most jaded of appetites'. Music and merrymaking ring again through the old arches and rafters which were old when Columbus discovered America.