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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 County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (Kilkenny GAA) (Irish: Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Coiste Cill Chainnigh) is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Kilkenny. The county board has its head office and main grounds at Nowlan Park and is also responsible for Kilkenny county teams in all codes at all levels. The Kilkenny branch of the Gaelic Athletic Association was founded in 1887.

In hurling, Kilkenny competes annually in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, which it has won 36 times (a national record), the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship, which it has won 73 times, and the National Hurling League, which it has won 19 times(a national record).

The camogie team has won both the National Camogie League and the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 15 times each. (Full article...)

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Upper Ossory (Irish: Osraighe Uachtarach) was an administrative barony in the south and west of Queen's County (now County Laois) in Ireland. In late Gaelic Ireland it was the túath of the Mac Giolla Phádraig (Fitzpatrick) family and a surviving remnant of the once larger kingdom of Ossory. The northernmost part of the Diocese of Ossory and medieval County Kilkenny, it was transferred to the newly created Queen's County, now known as County Laois, in 1600. In the 1840s its three component cantreds, Clarmallagh, Clandonagh, and Upperwoods, were promoted to barony status, thereby superseding Upper Ossory. (Full article...)

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St. Mary’s Collegiate Church Gowran (Irish: Eaglais Mhuire), also known as the Church of the Blessed Virgin of the Assumption, is a church in the centre of the town of Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland. The site is a National Monument in the care of the Gowran Development Association (GDA) and the Office of Public Works (OPW). The church and its family connections have been of huge importance to Gowran and further afield over the centuries. The church is a collegiate church, which means that the priests or chaplains attached to it lived in community together. The present church was not a monastery or an abbey; however experts believe the church was built on the site of an earlier monastery. The presence of an Ogham stone on the site, which is on display in the chancel, suggests there was a place of worship here dating back 2000 years to Celtic times or beyond. (Full article...)

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Ida (Irish: Uí Dheá) is a barony in the south-east of County Kilkenny, Ireland. Ida is made up of 16 civil parishes containing 191 townlands, it is one of 12 baronies in the County. The barony is 249.8 square kilometres (96.4 sq mi) in size, with highest point at Tory Hill. The chief town is Slieveroe. The N25 crosses the barony. (Full article...)

Slieveroe Church

Slieverue, officially Slieveroe, (Irish: Sliabh Rua, meaning 'red mountain') is a village in South County Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland. It is located in the historical barony of Ida. Despite the name, the land is relatively low-lying and fertile. Slieverue's population, as of the 2016 census, was 476. (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...)

Trail near Croaghaun, Blackstairs Mountains

The South Leinster Way is a long-distance trail in Ireland. It is 104 kilometres (65 miles) long and begins in Kildavin, County Carlow and runs through County Kilkenny before ending in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary. It is typically completed in five days. It is designated as a National Waymarked Trail by the National Trails Office of the Irish Sports Council and is jointly managed by Carlow County Council, Kilkenny County Council, Tipperary County Council, Carlow Local Sports Partnership, Kilkenny Trails and Coillte. It was opened on 30 November 1985 by Donal Creed, Minister of State for Sport. (Full article...)

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"Fire without smoke, Air without fog, Water without mud, Land without bog."

— Unknown, circa 17th Century

Selected Did you know

... that Green's Bridge (pictured) is almost a true copy of Bridge of Tiberius?
... that the history of Kilkenny began with an early sixth-century ecclesiastical foundation, this relates to a church built in honour of St. Canice, now St. Canice's Cathedral? (Full article...)

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Image 1James Butler the first Earl of Ormond.
Image 2Doors in Kilkenny
Image 3Dunmore Cave
Image 4Duiske Abbey in Graiguenamanagh
Image 5Nave and Transept of the Black Abbey, Kilkenny
Image 6Bennett's bridge in Bennettsbridge over the River Nore.
Image 7Brandon Hill
Image 8St Canice's Cathedral and round tower around which Kilkenny developed
Image 9East front of Jerpoint Abbey
Image 10Kingdom of Ireland flag from Confederate Ireland.
Image 11St Canice's Cathedral in Kilkenny
Image 12Kilkenny rooftops with St. Marys Cathedral in the distance.
Image 13
Image 14Leac an Scail, Kilmogue Portal Dolmen.
Image 15Map of County Kilkenny
John Savage
Image 16Pasture at Listerlin, County Kilkenny
Image 17Church of Saint John the Evangelist in Kilkenny
Image 18Rothe House in Kilkenny.
Image 19Plan of St Canice's Cathedral in Kilkenny
Image 20Kilkenny Hurler circa 1923
National Library of Ireland
Image 21Map of Ireland, circa 900, with Kingdom of Osraige indicated.
Image 22flag of County Kilkenny in the Kilkenny GAA
Image 23Jenkinstown Castle, ca 1830 in Jenkinstown Park.
Image 24Nave facing the Sanctuary in St Mary's Cathedral in Kilkenny
Image 25Kilkenny hurling team c. 1923
Image 26Foulksrath Castle
Image 27Kells Priory in Kells]]
Image 28Church of the Sacred Heart in Moneenroe.
Image 29Kilkenny city map circa 1780
Image 30Photograph of the Gowran Ogham Stone was taken in St. Mary's Collegiate Church in Gowran.
Image 31The Tholsel in Kilkenny.
Image 32Brandon Hill
Image 33Barrow Bridge open to allow boat upstream to New Ross (1997).
Image 34Pasture at Listerlin, County Kilkenny.
Image 35Crest of County Kilkenny
Image 36Kilkenny Castle
Image 37Kilkenny Castle, in Kilkenny
Image 38James Graves founder of Kilkenny Archaeological Society and antiquarian

Selected biography articles

William Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby (of Imokilly), PC (Ire) (15 September 1744 – 5 November 1806) was a leading Irish Whig politician, being a member of the Irish House of Commons, and, after 1800, of the United Kingdom parliament. Ponsonby was the son of the Hon. John Ponsonby, the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and Lady Elizabeth Cavendish, daughter of the 3rd Duke of Devonshire. He was invested as a Privy Counsellor of Ireland in 1784. He served as Joint Postmaster-General of Ireland (1784–1789). (Full article...)

John O'Donovan (Irish: Seán Ó Donnabháin; 25 July 1806 – 10 December 1861), from Atateemore, in the parish of Kilcolumb, County Kilkenny, and educated at Hunt's Academy, Waterford, was an Irish language scholar from Ireland. (Full article...)

Portrait of W. G. Wills, c. 1898.

William Gorman Wills (28 January 1828 – 13 December 1891), usually known as W. G. Wills, was an Irish dramatist, novelist and painter. (Full article...)

Margaret Phelan (née Duggan, 22 December 1902 – 24 February 2000) was President of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society, given freedom of the city of Kilkenny and ensured the restoration of Rothe House in Kilkenny. She was also the first Ladies president of the Kilkenny Golf Club. (Full article...)

Selected sport articles

Cahill (left) with Emma Leavitt-Morgan

Mabel Esmonde Cahill (2 April 1863 – 2 February 1905) was an Irish female tennis player, active in the late 19th century, and was the first foreign woman to win a major tennis tournament when she won the 1891 US National Championships. (Full article...)

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v t e Places in County Kilkenny
County town: Kilkenny
Towns	Ballyragget Callan Castlecomer Gowran Graignamanagh Kilkenny Mooncoin Mullinavat Stoneyford Thomastown Urlingford
Villages	Aughamucky Ballyhale Bennettsbridge Carrigeen Castlewarren Clogh Fiddown Freshford Galmoy Goresbridge Hugginstown Inistioge Johnstown Johnswell Kells Killamery Killinaspick Kilmacow Kilmoganny Knocktopher Paulstown Piltown Redhouse Riverquarter Rosbercon The Rower Slieverue Tullahought Tullaroan Windgap
Townlands	Ballyda Ballyragget Clogh Flagmount Hoodsgrove Jeanville Lisdowney Loughcullen Sandfordscourt
List of townlands of County Kilkenny Category:Mountains and hills of County Kilkenny Category:Rivers of County Kilkenny Category:Geography of County Kilkenny