Portal:County Kilkenny
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County Kilkenny (Irish: Contae Chill Chainnigh) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Leinster and is part of the Southern Region. It is named after the city of Kilkenny. Kilkenny County Council is the local authority for the county. At the 2022 census the population of the county was 103,685. The county was based on the historic Gaelic kingdom of Ossory (Osraighe), which was coterminous with the Diocese of Ossory. (Full article...)
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Kilkenny (Irish: Cill Chainnigh [ˌciːl̠ʲ ˈxan̠ʲəj], meaning 'church of Cainnech') is a city in County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is located in the South-East Region and in the province of Leinster. It is built on both banks of the River Nore. The 2022 census gave the population of Kilkenny as 27,184, the thirteenth-largest urban center in Ireland.
Kilkenny is a tourist destination, and its environs include historic buildings such as Kilkenny Castle, St Canice's Cathedral and round tower, Rothe House, Shee Alms House, Black Abbey, St. Mary's Cathedral, The Tholsel, St. Francis Abbey, Grace's Castle, and St. John's Priory. Kilkenny is also known for its craft and design workshops, the Watergate Theatre, public gardens and museums. Annual events include Kilkenny Arts Festival, the Cat Laughs comedy festival and music at the Kilkenny Roots Festival.
Kilkenny began with an early 6th-century ecclesiastical foundation within the Kingdom of Ossory. Following the 12th-century Norman invasion of Ireland, Kilkenny Castle and a series of walls were built to protect the burghers of what became a Norman merchant town. William Marshall, Lord of Leinster, gave Kilkenny a charter as a town in 1207. By the late 13th century, Kilkenny was under Hiberno-Norman control. The Statutes of Kilkenny, passed at Kilkenny in 1367, aimed to curb the decline of the Hiberno-Norman Lordship of Ireland. In 1609, King James I of England granted Kilkenny a Royal Charter, giving it the status of a city. Following the Irish Rebellion of 1641, the Irish Catholic Confederation, also known as the "Confederation of Kilkenny", was based in Kilkenny and lasted until the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in 1649. From 1840 onwards, Kilkenny has not been administered as a city under local government law, but the Local Government Reform Act 2014 provides for "the continued use of the description city". (Full article...)
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The Kilkenny Archaeological Society is an archaeological society in County Kilkenny, Ireland. (Full article...)
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The Church of Saint John the Evangelist, or John's Church, is a Gothic Revival style church in Kilkenny, Ireland. The Church was designed by William Hague and built from 1903 to 1908 on the site of an earlier church located in the graveyard. The grounds contain a trees and greenery. (Full article...)
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Kilkenny (Irish: Cill Chainnigh [ˌciːl̠ʲ ˈxan̠ʲəj], meaning 'church of Cainnech') is a city in County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is located in the South-East Region and in the province of Leinster. It is built on both banks of the River Nore. The 2022 census gave the population of Kilkenny as 27,184, the thirteenth-largest urban center in Ireland. (Full article...)
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1821 | 905 | — |
| 1831 | 2,436 | +169.2% |
| 1841 | 1,765 | −27.5% |
| 1851 | 1,694 | −4.0% |
| 1861 | 1,435 | −15.3% |
| 1871 | 1,321 | −7.9% |
| 1881 | 1,182 | −10.5% |
| 1891 | 1,019 | −13.8% |
| 1901 | 958 | −6.0% |
| 1911 | 872 | −9.0% |
| 1926 | 829 | −4.9% |
| 1936 | 809 | −2.4% |
| 1946 | 718 | −11.2% |
| 1951 | 722 | +0.6% |
| 1956 | 1,191 | +65.0% |
| 1961 | 1,129 | −5.2% |
| 1966 | 1,141 | +1.1% |
| 1971 | 1,244 | +9.0% |
| 1981 | 1,548 | +24.4% |
| 1986 | 1,490 | −3.7% |
| 1991 | 1,396 | −6.3% |
| 1996 | 1,380 | −1.1% |
| 2002 | 1,482 | +7.4% |
| 2006 | 1,531 | +3.3% |
| 2011 | 1,456 | −4.9% |
| 2016 | 1,502 | +3.2% |
Castlecomer (Irish: Caisleán an Chomair, 'castle at the confluence') is a town in the north of County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is positioned at the meeting of N78 and R694 roads about 16 km (9.9 mi) north of Kilkenny city. At the 2016 census of the Central Statistics Office, the town's population included 1,502 people. The town is in a townland and civil parish of the same name. (Full article...)
The River Nore (Irish: An Fheoir [ə ˈn̠ʲoːɾʲ]) is one of the principal rivers (along with the River Suir and River Barrow) in the South-East Region of Ireland. The 140-kilometre-long (87 mi) river drains approximately 2,530 square kilometres (977 sq mi) of Leinster and Munster, that encompasses parts of three counties (Tipperary, Laois, Kilkenny). Along with the River Suir and River Barrow, it is one of the constituent rivers of the group known as the Three Sisters. (Full article...)
The Nore Valley Way is a long-distance trail under development in County Kilkenny, Ireland. When completed it will be 34 kilometres (21 miles) long and begin in Kilkenny City and end in Inistioge. It is designated as a National Waymarked Trail by the National Trails Office of the Irish Sports Council and is managed by Trail Kilkenny, a group made up of representatives of Kilkenny County Council, County Kilkenny LEADER Partnership, Kilkenny Sports Partnership and local landowners. Two stages are open at present: the first from Kilkenny to Bennettsbridge and the second from Thomastown to Inistioge. The final section – linking Bennettsbridge and Thomastown – is under construction. (Full article...)
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There once was two cats of Kilkenny
Each cat thought there was one cat too many So they fought and they fit And they scratched and they bit 'Til instead of two cats there weren't any. |
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- ... that the Osraige (pictured) was a medieval Irish kingdom comprising most of present-day County Kilkenny and western County Laois?
- ... that the Mayor of Kilkenny is an honorific title used by the head of Kilkenny County Council? (Full article...)
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Map of Ireland, circa 900, with Kingdom of Osraige indicated. -
Church of the Sacred Heart in Moneenroe. -
Doors in Kilkenny -
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St Canice's Cathedral and round tower around which Kilkenny developed -
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Pasture at Listerlin, County Kilkenny. -
Photograph of the Gowran Ogham Stone was taken in St. Mary's Collegiate Church in Gowran. -
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Bennett's bridge in Bennettsbridge over the River Nore. -
Jenkinstown Castle, ca 1830 in Jenkinstown Park. -
Plan of St Canice's Cathedral in Kilkenny -
Nave facing the Sanctuary in St Mary's Cathedral in Kilkenny -
Leac an Scail, Kilmogue Portal Dolmen. -
Nave and Transept of the Black Abbey, Kilkenny -
James Butler the first Earl of Ormond. -
Kingdom of Ireland flag from Confederate Ireland. -
Kilkenny city map circa 1780 -
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Pasture at Listerlin, County Kilkenny
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flag of County Kilkenny in the Kilkenny GAA -
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Kilkenny hurling team c. 1923 -
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Rothe House in Kilkenny. -
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Kilkenny Hurler circa 1923 -
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The Tholsel in Kilkenny. -
James Graves founder of Kilkenny Archaeological Society and antiquarian -
Kilkenny rooftops with St. Marys Cathedral in the distance.
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Selected biography articles
John Casey (12 May 1820, Kilbehenny, County Limerick, Ireland – 3 January 1891, Dublin) was a respected Irish geometer. He is most famous for Casey's theorem on a circle that is tangent to four other circles, an extension of Ptolemy's theorem. However, he contributed several novel proofs and perspectives on Euclidean geometry. He and Émile Lemoine are considered to be the co-founders of the modern geometry of the circle and the triangle. (Full article...)
Abraham Colles (23 July 1773 – 16 November 1843) was Professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and the President of RCSI in 1802 and 1830. A prestigious Colles Medal & Travelling Fellowship in Surgery is awarded competitively annually to an Irish surgical trainee embarking on higher specialist training abroad before returning to establish practice in Ireland. (Full article...)
Kathleen Marescaux (3 July 1868 – 14 April 1944), born Kathleen Louisa Rose Dennis, was an Irish artist, best known as a painter of botanical subjects and rural landscapes. (Full article...)
Brian Mac Giolla Phádraig (c. 1580 – 1653) was an Irish poet and priest. He is not to be confused with any of the Barons of Upper Ossory, his relations, several of whom bore the same name in Irish. (Full article...)
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Denis Joseph Carey (born 11 November 1970) is an Irish former hurler who played as a left wing-forward at senior level for the Kilkenny county team.
Carey began his hurling career at club level with Young Irelands. He broke onto the club's top adult team as a 17-year-old in 1988 and enjoyed his first success in 1992 when the club won the Kilkenny Intermediate Championship title and promotion to the top flight of Kilkenny hurling. Carey later won Kilkenny Senior Championship medals as captain in 1996 and 2002. He made numerous championship appearances in three different grades of hurling for the club before retiring after a 25-year club career in 2013. (Full article...)
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