Now houses the Kilkenny Tourist Office.

One of the few surviving Tudor Alms Houses in Ireland it was built in 1582 by Sir Richard Shee to accommodate 12 poor people (6 men and 6 women) of the city of Kilkenny. He provided for its continuity in his will and it remained a charitable institution for more than 300 years until 1912 when it was let as a store.

During the time of the Penal Laws in the eighteenth century the building was used, illegally, as a catholic chapel by priests on the run who said mass there for local Catholics. That this was done with the connivance of local Protestants says much for the good relations that existed between the two denominations in Kilkenny at that time and which continues to this day.