User:Mrchris/Kilkenny (barony)

The barony of Kilkenny  is a barony in the heart of County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is one of 12 baronies in County Kilkenny. The size of the barony is 22.9 km2. There are 4 civil parishes in Kilkenny, made up of 11 townlands. The chief town is Kilkenny. Kilkenny lies to the centre of the county surounded by the baronies of Fassadinin to the north (whose chief town is Castlecomer), Gowran to the west (whose chief town is Gowran), Shillelogher to the south (whose chief town is Bennettsbridge), and Crannagh to the west (whose chief town is Freshford, County Kilkenny). The river Nore flows through the barony.

Geography


Kilkenny contained the towns of the settlements of Irishtown.

Kilkenny contians the civil parishes of St. Canice, St. John's, St. Mary's, and St. Patrick's.

The river Nore flows through the barony.

The Town or Free borough of Kilkenny
"The Town or Free borough of Kilkenny"

"County of the city of Kilkenny"
Irishtown.

Mayor and Citizans of the City of Kilkenny
1716

"Liberties of Kilkenny" or the "County of the city of Kilkenny"

Also known as Municipal Borough of Kilkenny or Kilkenny Barony. Liberties of the city of Kilkenny.

Recorded as the "Liberties of Kilkenny" in the Down Survey (1656), and on Griffith's Valuation (1864). Parts of the barony were in the Poor law unions of Callan, Kilkenny, and Thomastown. In 1881 the "Liberties of the city of Kilkenny" contained the Parishes of St. John's, St. Mary's, St. Canice, St. Patricks, St. Maul's and Dunmore. It is doubted that St. Mauls was ever a distinct parish. Butler, earl of Ormond and later the Rothe family.