Market Cross Shopping Centre: Shops, Times & Offers

Address: High Street, James’ Street and Chapel Lane, Kilkenny ·
Phone: (056) 775 2666 ·
Email: admin@marketcross.ie ·
Penneys late opening: Thursday and Friday until 8:00pm ·
Featured offer: Up to 40% off everything in store ·
Dealz opening jobs: 27 new jobs

Six figures carry most of the practical weight for visitors, and one pattern cuts through: the official contact details are stable, while store-level hours are the detail most likely to drift between sources.

What shops are in Market Cross Shopping Centre?

Which stores are listed on the official Market Cross site?

• Official store count: 28 across two levels, per the official site.
• Golden Disc: vinyl, CDs, DVDs, headphones, and turntables; phone 056 779 5479 (Market Cross Shopping Centre — Golden Disc store listing).
• CeX: electronics and media reseller at Unit 24, R95 HD53 (CeX Ireland — Market Cross store page).

Golden Disc’s listed hours are Monday to Thursday 09:30–18:00, Friday 10:00–18:00, Saturday 10:00–18:00, and Sunday 12:00–18:00.

That mix — a mainstream anchor store, a specialist electronics reseller, and a media shop like Golden Disc — is what makes Market Cross feel like a high street that happens to sit under one roof.

What are the details for Penneys at Market Cross?

• Location: Market Cross Shopping Centre, James’s Street, Gardens, Kilkenny, R95 RXV6; store phone 056 775 2755 (Penneys/Primark — official store page).
• When last indexed, the official page showed a closed status and an 11:00 opening time rather than a full weekly schedule (Penneys/Primark — official store page).

Penneys is the anchor store that pulls people into the centre, and its own page is the authoritative source for the Kilkenny address and direct line. The incomplete schedule in the indexed version is a warning: the late Thursday and Friday opening is real, but the full weekly picture is best confirmed by phone.

Which new store did Kilkenny People report at Market Cross?

• Reported new store: Dealz.
• Reported impact: 27 new jobs.

Kilkenny People, the local news outlet covering the city, reported that Dealz opened a new store at Market Cross with 27 jobs attached to the opening. The available record does not date the move, but the local coverage treated it as a recent development.

What are Market Cross Shopping Centre opening times?

What time does the centre open on weekdays?

• Yelp lists a 9:00am opening, Monday through Saturday.
• A full centre closing time is not confirmed in the available sources.

Yelp’s listing for Market Cross is the clearest weekday signal in the supplied record: it puts the opening at 9:00am from Monday to Saturday, and the same listing carries the centre phone number. What it does not settle is a single closing time for the whole building, which is why the store-level hours below matter.

The practical consequence: shoppers should treat the centre’s hours and each store’s hours as two separate questions.

How late is Penneys open on Thursday and Friday?

• Monday to Wednesday: 9:00am–6:00pm.
• Thursday and Friday: 9:00am–8:00pm.
• Saturday: from 9:00am.

Penneys opens at 9:00am and stays open until 8:00pm on Thursday and Friday. A third-party listing from Evendo matches that with 09:00–20:00 on both nights (Evendo — third-party retail listing). The same Evendo entry gives Saturday hours of 09:00–18:30 and Sunday hours of 11:00–18:00, but those weekend times are a softer signal: neither is confirmed by the official Penneys page.

What do third-party listings say about Saturday hours?

• CeX: Saturday 09:30–18:00; Sunday 12:00–18:00 (CeX Ireland — Market Cross store page).
• Penneys (third-party): Saturday 09:00–18:30; Sunday 11:00–18:00 (Evendo — third-party retail listing).

The two listings disagree on Saturday and Sunday times, which is exactly why the official sources matter more than any one directory. CeX publishes its own hours for Unit 24: Monday, Tuesday and Saturday 09:30–18:00; Wednesday and Thursday 10:00–18:00; Friday 09:30–20:00; and Sunday 12:00–18:00 (CeX Ireland — Market Cross store page).

Where is Market Cross Shopping Centre in Kilkenny?

What is the official address of Market Cross?

• Official address: High Street, James’ Street and Chapel Lane, Kilkenny; phone (056) 775 2666; email admin@marketcross.ie (Market Cross Shopping Centre — official site).
• Centre postcode: R95 V32A, in the available record.

The address spans three streets because the centre runs between them: High Street on one side, James’ Street and Chapel Lane on the others. For centre-level questions about opening times or the store directory, the official contact line above is the number to call.

Penneys, within the same complex, lists its own postcode as R95 RXV6 on its store page.

Which streets define the shopping centre?

• PropertyPal places Market Cross in the heart of Kilkenny City Centre.
• The “Gardens” element in the Penneys address is the area name for this part of Kilkenny.

Commercial property site PropertyPal puts the centre in the heart of Kilkenny City Centre, which matches the three-street footprint: James’ Street and High Street connect to the retail core, while Chapel Lane feeds the side. The “Gardens” label that appears in the Penneys address is the area name for this part of the city, not a separate location.

No map link appears in the available record, so navigating by street name is the reliable approach: aim for James’ Street or High Street, and the centre sits at their junction with Chapel Lane.

What is the centre’s position in Kilkenny?

• Available unit: 1,604.01 sq m with an asking price of €200,000 (PropertyPal).
• Store count: 28 across two levels.

The 1,604.01 sq m unit is the largest concrete detail in the commercial record: it puts a significant chunk of the centre on the market, with an asking price of €200,000, and PropertyPal — the commercial listing site carrying the record — places the centre in the heart of Kilkenny City Centre.

The scale is the context: with 28 stores over two levels, the available unit is a material part of the centre, not a side kiosk. The location itself is not in dispute — the address, the postcode, and the listings all point to the same city-centre block — so the practical question is which entrance you need, and that depends on the store.

What do Market Cross Shopping Centre reviews say?

Where are Market Cross reviews published?

• Yelp hosts a Market Cross business page with contact details and 14 user photos.
• No average rating or review count is visible in the available snippet.

Yelp is the review platform that surfaces for Market Cross in search results. Its page carries the centre phone number — the same (056) 775 2666 that appears on the official site — and a 9:00am opening time. The listing shows 14 user photos in the supplied record, but no average score or review count is visible, so there is no rating data to repeat here.

What operational details do review listings confirm?

• Phone (056) 775 2666 appears on both the Yelp listing and the official contact line.
• The 9:00am opening time appears in the Yelp listing but not in a full centre timetable.

When a user-generated listing and the official site agree on a phone number, that detail is safe to treat as fixed. The same cannot be said for hours: Yelp’s 9:00am opening is the only centre-level time signal in the supplied sources, and it says nothing about closing.

Which facts should not be inferred from the review snippet?

• Sunday hours: not confirmed.
• Saturday closing time: not shown for the centre or for Penneys.
• Average rating: not visible, so no quality verdict is offered.

The review snippet answers the “is this a real, operating centre?” question, but it does not answer the “what time will I get kicked out?” question. Treat the 9:00am opening as reliable and treat every closing time as unverified unless a store’s own page states it.

Is there outlet shopping in Kilkenny?

Does Market Cross function as an outlet centre?

• Official label: “special offers,” not “outlet.”
• Search behaviour: “outlet shopping in Kilkenny” surfaces Market Cross because of its promotions.

No official source describes Market Cross as an outlet centre. It is a city-centre shopping centre with a mix of national and specialist retailers, and its discount-driven promotions are what pull outlet-style search traffic. The distinction matters: outlet centres are typically destination retail outside a town core, while Market Cross sits on Kilkenny’s main shopping streets.

What current offers are promoted at Market Cross?

• Featured promotion: up to 40% off everything in store.
• Vehicle: a dedicated Special Offers page on the official site.

The centre’s Special Offers page promotes discounts of up to 40% off everything in store, which is a storewide play rather than a clearance corner. That single figure does more than any label to explain why shoppers search for outlet-style retail in Kilkenny and land on Market Cross.

How should the special-offers page be described?

• Accurate description: outlet-style offers, not an outlet centre.
• Practical effect: discount-driven high-street shopping in the city centre.

The honest description is “outlet-style offers in a city-centre setting.” If you are looking for a formal outlet village with dedicated factory stores, Kilkenny’s answer is that Market Cross is not that — but if you are after the experience of walking out with 40% off a full shop, the special-offers page delivers the closest version of it in the city core.

For shoppers who arrive via an “outlet shopping in Kilkenny” search, Market Cross is the closest match — but it is the promotions, not the business model, that earn the term.

What’s new at Market Cross Shopping Centre?

The available record contains one clearly reported development, plus a commercial signal that points to more change ahead.

• Not dated in the available record: Dealz opens a new store at Market Cross Shopping Centre, creating 27 jobs, as reported by Kilkenny People.
• Currently listed: a 1,604.01 sq m retail unit with an asking price of €200,000, carried by commercial property site PropertyPal.

Why this matters: the Dealz opening shows the centre can still sign national retailers, and the vacant unit shows there is room for another one. The store directory is the part of Market Cross most likely to change.

What’s confirmed and what’s still unclear

The split is close to even, which is the honest picture: the centre’s core facts are solid, while the store-level details need a phone call to pin down.

What the sources say

Three source positions stand out, and they line up with the three main ways people use Market Cross: the official view, the promotional view, and the local news view.

The official website describes Market Cross as the heart of Kilkenny city, with 28 stores spread across two levels.

Market Cross Shopping Centre — official description

The centre’s Special Offers page promotes discounts of up to 40% off everything in store — the single strongest signal that Market Cross behaves like an outlet-style destination even though it is not labelled one.

Market Cross Shopping Centre — Special Offers page

Local news coverage tied the arrival of Dealz at Market Cross to the creation of 27 jobs, a concrete sign that the centre’s store lineup is still growing.

Kilkenny People — local news reporting

The common thread: the centre promotes itself as the city’s retail anchor, and local reporting shows it adding retailers rather than losing them — which makes the current vacancy the main counter-signal.

The takeaway

Market Cross works best when treated as a set of individual stores rather than a single machine: the centre opens at 9:00am, Penneys runs late on Thursday and Friday, and the promotions page can save up to 40% on a full shop. The unresolved piece is the centre’s evening and Sunday rhythm, which no single listing in the available record settles. For a visitor who needs a specific store — Penneys, CeX, or Dealz — the practical move is to check that store’s own page before heading out, because the difference between a 6:00pm close and an 8:00pm close is the difference between a full evening and a wasted trip.

Frequently asked questions

If a detail here ever conflicts with a store’s own page, the store’s page wins — that is the safest rule for a centre where hours change at store level.