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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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Butler (Irish: de Buitléir) is the name of a noble family whose members were, for several centuries, prominent in the administration of the Lordship of Ireland and the Kingdom of Ireland. They rose to their highest prominence as Dukes of Ormonde. The family has produced multiple titles such as Baron Cahir, Baron Dunboyne, Viscount Ikerrin, Viscount Galmoye, Viscount Mountgarret, Viscount Thurles, Earl of Carrick, Earl of Kilkenny, Earl of Ormond, Earl of Ossory, Marquess of Ormonde and Duke of Ormonde. Variant spellings of the name include le Boteler and le Botiller. The Butlers were descendants of Anglo-Norman lords who participated in the Norman invasion of Ireland in the 12th century. The surname has its origins in the hereditary office of "Butler (cup-bearer) of Ireland", originating with Theobald Walter, 1st Chief Butler of Ireland. The arms of later family members depicted three cups in recognition of their original office. (Full article...)
Selected landmarks articles
Kilkenny Castle (Irish: Caisleán Chill Chainnigh pronounced [ˈkaʃlʲaːnˠˈçiːl̪ʲˈxan̪ʲiː]) is a castle in Kilkenny, Ireland, built in 1260 to control a fording-point of the River Nore and the junction of several routeways. It was a symbol of Norman occupation, and in its original 13th-century condition, it would have formed an important element of the town's defences with four large circular corner towers and a massive ditch, part of which can still be seen today on the Parade.
In 1967, Arthur Butler, 6th Marquess of Ormonde, sold the castle for £50 to the Castle Restoration Committee for the people of Kilkenny. The castle and grounds are now managed by the Office of Public Works, and the gardens and parkland are open to the public. The Parade Tower is a conference venue. Since 2002, ceremonies for conferring awards and degrees on the graduates of the Kilkenny Campus of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, have been held at the castle. (Full article...)
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Galmoy (Irish: Gabhalmhaigh, meaning 'plain of the Ghabhal [River Goul]') is a barony in the north western part of County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is one of 12 baronies in County Kilkenny. The size of the barony is 162.7 square kilometres (62.8 sq mi). There are 12 civil parishes in Galmoy. While it is named after the village of Galmoy, today the chief town of the barony is Urlingford. Galmoy barony lies at the north-western corner of the county between Fassadinin to the east (whose chief town is Castlecomer), and Crannagh to the south (whose chief town is Freshford). It is surrounded on two sides by counties Tipperary to the west and Laois to the north. The M8 Dublin/Cork motorway bisects the barony. It is situated 121 kilometres (75 mi) from Dublin city and 131 kilometres (81 mi) from Cork city. Galmoy is currently administered by Kilkenny County Council. The barony was part of in the historic kingdom of Osraige (Ossory). (Full article...)
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1821 | 1,812 | — |
| 1831 | 2,175 | +20.0% |
| 1841 | 2,075 | −4.6% |
| 1851 | 1,076 | −48.1% |
| 1861 | 953 | −11.4% |
| 1871 | 915 | −4.0% |
| 1881 | 733 | −19.9% |
| 1891 | 622 | −15.1% |
| 1901 | 551 | −11.4% |
| 1911 | 446 | −19.1% |
| 1926 | 413 | −7.4% |
| 1936 | 456 | +10.4% |
| 1946 | 474 | +3.9% |
| 1951 | 491 | +3.6% |
| 1956 | 626 | +27.5% |
| 1961 | 656 | +4.8% |
| 1966 | 565 | −13.9% |
| 1971 | 585 | +3.5% |
| 1981 | 747 | +27.7% |
| 1986 | 700 | −6.3% |
| 1991 | 651 | −7.0% |
| 1996 | 632 | −2.9% |
| 2002 | 756 | +19.6% |
| 2006 | 734 | −2.9% |
| 2011 | 685 | −6.7% |
| 2016 | 662 | −3.4% |
Freshford (Irish: Achadh Úr, meaning 'fresh field') is a village and former town in the barony of Crannagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is 13 km north-west of Kilkenny city. The village is in a civil parish of the same name. (Full article...)
The River Suir (/ʃʊər/ SHOOR; Irish: an tSiúr [ənʲ ˈtʲuːɾˠ] or Abhainn na Siúire [ˌəun̠ʲ n̪ˠə ˈʃuːɾʲə]) is a river in Ireland that flows into the Atlantic Ocean through Waterford after a distance of 185 kilometres (115 mi). The catchment area of the Suir is 3,610 km2. Its long term average flow rate is 76.9 cubic metres per second (m3/s), about twice the flow of either the River Barrow (37.4 m3/s) or the River Nore (42.9 m3/s) before these join, but a little less than the Barrow's flow when it meets the Suir 20 km downstream (over 80 m3/s). (Full article...)
The Barrow Way (Irish: Slí na Bearú) is a long-distance trail in Ireland. It is 100 kilometres (62 miles) long and begins in Robertstown, County Kildare and ends in St Mullin's, County Carlow, following the course of the River Barrow and the Barrow Line of the Grand Canal through counties Kildare, Carlow, Kilkenny and Laois. It is typically completed in four days. It is designated as a National Waymarked Trail by the National Trails Office of the Irish Sports Council and is managed by Waterways Ireland. (Full article...)
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"Fire without smoke, Air without fog, Water without mud, Land without bog."
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- ...that under Brian Cody's (pictured) management the Kilkenny GAA team won five league-championship doubles?
- ...that the Butler dynasty refers to the several branches of the Butler family, which included the Butlers of Ormond, who's family seat, since 1391, was Kilkenny Castle. (Full article...)
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St Canice's Cathedral and round tower around which Kilkenny developed -
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Nave facing the Sanctuary in St Mary's Cathedral in Kilkenny -
Map of Ireland, circa 900, with Kingdom of Osraige indicated. -
Nave and Transept of the Black Abbey, Kilkenny -
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James Butler the first Earl of Ormond. -
Map of County Kilkenny -
Jenkinstown Castle, ca 1830 in Jenkinstown Park. -
Leac an Scail, Kilmogue Portal Dolmen. -
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James Graves founder of Kilkenny Archaeological Society and antiquarian -
East front of Jerpoint Abbey -
The Tholsel in Kilkenny. -
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Kilkenny Hurler circa 1923 -
Pasture at Listerlin, County Kilkenny -
Kilkenny hurling team c. 1923 -
Bennett's bridge in Bennettsbridge over the River Nore. -
Crest of County Kilkenny -
Kingdom of Ireland flag from Confederate Ireland. -
flag of County Kilkenny in the Kilkenny GAA -
Plan of St Canice's Cathedral in Kilkenny -
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Photograph of the Gowran Ogham Stone was taken in St. Mary's Collegiate Church in Gowran. -
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Pasture at Listerlin, County Kilkenny.
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Kilkenny city map circa 1780 -
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Church of the Sacred Heart in Moneenroe. -
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Rothe House in Kilkenny.
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Selected biography articles
George Berkeley (/ˈbɑːrkli/ BARK-lee; 12 March 1685 – 14 January 1753) – known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne of the Anglican Church of Ireland) – was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others). This theory denies the existence of material substance and instead contends that familiar objects like tables and chairs are ideas perceived by the mind and, as a result, cannot exist without being perceived. Berkeley is also known for his critique of abstraction, an important premise in his argument for immaterialism.
In 1709, Berkeley published his first major work, An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, in which he discussed the limitations of human vision and advanced the theory that the proper objects of sight are not material objects, but light and colour. This foreshadowed his chief philosophical work, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, in 1710, which, after its poor reception, he rewrote in dialogue form and published under the title Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in 1713. In this book, Berkeley's views were represented by Philonous (Greek: "lover of mind"), while Hylas ("hyle", Greek: "matter") embodies the Irish thinker's opponents, in particular John Locke. (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...)
Letitia Bushe (c.1705/1710 – 17 November 1757) was an Irish watercolourist and miniaturist. (Full article...)
John Locke (1847–1889) was an Irish writer and Fenian activist, exiled to the United States, and most famous for writing "Dawn on the Irish Coast", also known as "The Exiles Return, or Morning on the Irish coast". (Full article...)
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James Mason (19 November 1849 – 12 January 1905) was a British-American chess player, journalist and writer who became one of the world's best half-dozen players in the 1880s. Mason was ranked the number 1 player in the world by Chessmetrics during 11 separate months between August 1877 and June 1878. (Full article...)
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