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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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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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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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The barony of Knocktopher (Irish: Cnoc an Tóchair, meaning ''Hill of the Causeway'') is a barony in the west of County Kilkenny, Ireland. The barony is 46,765 acres (189.25 km2) in size. There are 16 civil parishes made up of 125 townlands. It is one of 12 baronies in the county. The chief town is Mullinavat and it contains the settlements of Stonyford, Ballyhale, Hugginstown, Knocktopher, and Dunnamaggan. The M9 motorway bisects the barony. (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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Kilkenny Hurler circa 1923 -
Church of the Sacred Heart in Moneenroe. -
Map of Ireland, circa 900, with Kingdom of Osraige indicated. -
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Dunmore Cave -
Rothe House in Kilkenny. -
Photograph of the Gowran Ogham Stone was taken in St. Mary's Collegiate Church in Gowran. -
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Crest of County Kilkenny -
Bennett's bridge in Bennettsbridge over the River Nore. -
East front of Jerpoint Abbey -
Nave facing the Sanctuary in St Mary's Cathedral in Kilkenny -
Leac an Scail, Kilmogue Portal Dolmen. -
James Butler the first Earl of Ormond. -
Kilkenny city map circa 1780 -
Plan of St Canice's Cathedral in Kilkenny -
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James Graves founder of Kilkenny Archaeological Society and antiquarian -
The Tholsel in Kilkenny. -
Kilkenny hurling team c. 1923 -
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Jenkinstown Castle, ca 1830 in Jenkinstown Park. -
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flag of County Kilkenny in the Kilkenny GAA -
Pasture at Listerlin, County Kilkenny.
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St Canice's Cathedral and round tower around which Kilkenny developed
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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...)
James Stephens (Irish: Séamus Mac Stiofáin; 26 January 1825 – 29 March 1901) was an Irish Republican, and the founding member of an originally unnamed revolutionary organisation in Dublin. This organisation, founded on 17 March 1858, was later to become known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood (I.R.B). (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...)
Deborah Alcock (1835– 15 January 1913) was a late-Victorian author of historical fiction focused on religious, evangelical themes. (Full article...)
Selected sport articles
Angela Downey-Browne (born 1957, Kilkenny) is a retired Irish sportsperson. She played camogie with her local clubs, St Paul's based in Kilkenny city and Lisdowney, and was a member of the Kilkenny senior inter-county team from 1970-95. Downey is regarded as the greatest player in the history of the game.
In a senior inter-county career that 25 years she won twelve All-Ireland medals, thirteen Leinster medals and eight National League medals. With her two clubs St. Paul's and Lisdowney she collected 22 county titles and 6 All-Ireland club medals. (Full article...)
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