In Section 10 ( 7 ) continues the " use of the description city in relation to Kilkenny, to the extent that that description was used before ( January 1, 2002 ) and is not otherwise inconsistent with this Act.

Carrickfergus, Drogheda and Kilkenny were abolished ; Galway was also abolished, but recreated in 1986.

At a special " Leadership Convention " in Kilkenny on 6 October 2001, Trevor Sargent was elected the first official leader of the Green Party.

* The St Piran Trust has undertaken research which has led them to the conclusion that Saint Piran was indeed Saint Ciarán of Saighir or perhaps a disciple, as indicated by Dr James Brennan of Kilkenny and Dr T. F. G. Dexter, whose thesis is held in the Royal Cornwall Museum.

The term was initially applied in Ireland to the isolated bands of guerrillas resisting Oliver Cromwell's nine-month 1649 – 1650 campaign in Ireland, who were allied with Royalists through treaty with the Parliament of Confederate Ireland, signed at Kilkenny in January 1649 ; and later to dispossessed Catholics in Ulster following the Restoration.

His great-grandfather, Arundel Elias Disney, had emigrated from Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland where he was born in 1801.

Finglas was originally the site of an Early Christian abbey, the origin of which has been associated, from early times, with the name of St. Cainnech, or Canice, the patron of Kilkenny, said to have founded it in 560 A. D.

He was already in possession of Kilkenny Castle-the ancestral seat of the earls.

In 1366, in order for the English Crown to assert its authority over the settlers, a parliament was assembled in Kilkenny and the Statute of Kilkenny was enacted.

Surveys of woodlands of County Kilkenny include A Woodland Survey of Kilkenny, undertaken in 1997 to identify woodlands in the county and A survey of broadleaved woodlands in three special Areas of Conservation, Barrow-Nore, River Unshin and Lough Forbes ( 2000 ) which covers some of County Kilkenny, and National Survey of Native Woodlands ( NSNW ) 2003-2008 which was one of the largest ecological surveys to be completed in Ireland and did its fieldwork in the county in 2003.

Estimates of the woodlands in County Kilkenny include the Forest Inventory Planning System ( 1998 ) which estimated Kilkenny had 2251 ha of mixed woodland and broadleaf woodland not dominated by beech, representing 1. 09 % of the county and the National Forest Inventory 2004 and 2006 which estimated that 4430 ha of the county is native forested land, Scots pine was regarded as non-native, representing 2. 15 % of the county .< ref name = native-woodlands >

While Kilkenny city was once a county corporate, by the terms of the 1898 Act it became part of the administrative county.

In August 2004, a muti killing took place in Ireland ; the headless corpse of a Malawi woman was found near Piltown, County Kilkenny.

By the late thirteenth century Kilkenny was under Norman-Irish control.

Following the 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.

The Four Masters entry was the first instance where the capital was called Ceall-Cainnigh ( modernized Kilkenny ).

That year he won his first Munster hurling title, however, Kilkenny later accounted for Cork in the famous " thunder and lightning " All-Ireland final.

The family lived near Millmount, a townsland near Kilkenny, Ireland, where his father owned and managed his inheritance which was the extensive Black Quarry that produced the famous Black Kilkenny Marble.

* Kilkenny famous landmarks

The River Bandon is famous for its Atlantic Salmon Fishing with the biggest recorded salmon caught in Ireland since 1991 being landed by Bill Canning of Goresbridge Co. Kilkenny on the 7th of July 2008.

These cousins had had an interest in Kilkenny antiquities from their youngest days, when they had rambled as far afield as Kilfane church to see the famous tomb sculpture of Cantwell Fada.

Meagher played his club hurling with the famous Tullaroan club in Kilkenny and enjoyed much success.

* John Smithwick begins brewing Smithwick's ale at Kilkenny, Ireland ( St. Francis Abbey Brewery ).

The majority of rest of the county is hilly except for the centre of the County, just south of the city of Kilkenny, which is comparably lower than the rest of the county.

In the late twentieth century Kilkenny is a tourist and creative centre.

The history of Kilkenny () began with an early sixth century ecclesiastical foundation, with a church built in honour of St. Canice which is now St. Canice's Cathedral, and was a major monastic centre from at least the eighth century.

Thomas MacDonagh Tower in Ballymun, Dublin, which was built in the 1960s and demolished in June 2005, was named after him, as was the train station ( MacDonagh Station ) and shopping centre ( MacDonagh Junction ) in Kilkenny ( as MacDonagh had taught in St Kierans College, Kilkenny City during the early years of his career ).

Midfielder Michael Comerford and centre back Willie Tyrrell signed from now defunct Kilkenny City.

A new greenfield N10 route section is to be built from near Dunbell ( about west of Kilkenny city centre ), running northwest and meeting the Kilkenny Ring Road further north than the current connection.

The R691 road is a regional road in Ireland which runs west-east from the centre of Cashel in County Tipperary to the N76 near Callan in County Kilkenny.

National secondary roads generally do not bypass towns on their routes although there are a number of exceptions: the N52 bypasses Nenagh, Mullingar and the centre of Dundalk ( as a relief road ) with a further N52 bypass of Tullamore planned, the N55 ( along with the N3 ) bypasses Cavan, the N56 forms part of the Donegal bypass, the N61 and the N63 bypass Roscommon, the N71 bypasses Halfway and Skibbereen, the N74 bypasses Cashel, the N76 bypasses Callan, the N77 forms the northern part of the Kilkenny ring road, the N80 bypasses Carlow and the N85 bypasses Ennis.

Category: People from County Kilkenny

Waterford, Kilkenny and Wexford apparently date from this time, too, as remnants of Strongbow's palatine county in Leinster.

The possibility of a similar action with regard to Waterford City has been raised in recent years, though opposition from Kilkenny has been strong.

According to genealogist Edward MacLysaght the surname Lundy is from Norman de la Lounde, a name recorded in medieval documents in counties Tipperary and Kilkenny in Ireland.

Kilkenny extends southward from Laois to the valley of the Suir and eastward from the Munster-Leinster border to the River Barrow.

Information on the history of Kilkenny can be found from newspapers, photographs, letters, drawings, manuscripts and archaeology.

Kilkenny is documented in manuscripts from the 13th century onwards and one of the most important of these is Liber Primus Kilkenniensis.

James II of England spent most of the winter months from November 1689 until January 1690 at Kilkenny, residing in the castle.

People from Kilkenny are often referred to as Cats.

One of these Irish settlers was William Byrne, who had immigrated in 1840 from County Kilkenny, Ireland to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Michael E. Comerford ( 1865 – 1939 ) was born at Heckscherville, Pennsylvania, to parents who had recently immigrated to the United States from County Kilkenny, Ireland.

The little church was named after a parish in Kilkenny, Ireland from where many of St. Kieran's parishioners originally hailed.

Category: People from Kilkenny ( city )

His paternal great-great-grandparents, Nicholas Clooney ( of County Kilkenny ) and Bridget Byron, emigrated to the United States from Ireland.

His wife and children were escorted from Kilkenny to Dublin under the order of the rebel leader Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount Mountgarret, another member of the Butler dynasty.

His battalion was part of the Curragh 5th Division and, from its headquarters in Carlow, its role was to patrol the county of Kilkenny.

Fearing that he would meet the same fate of the Earl of Strafford, Tuchet manage to escape with the help of a friend and fled south into the Wicklow Mountains, and from there made his way to the town of Kilkenny, which had sided with the Irish insurgency.

Smithwick's is an Irish red ale style beer from Kilkenny, Ireland.

" In the Old Kilkenny Review, year unknown, Peter Smithwick, K. M., Solicitor, wrote that the tradition of Kilkenny is that Sullivan ’ s Brewery was founded in 1702 ... Daniel Sullivan, allegedly a Protestant, bought the property in trust for Pierse Bryan of Jenkinstown, who was Catholic but prohibited by the Penal Laws from buying land ... Twenty years later a Protestant informer got a decree declaring himself the owner of the property ... The property was on the West side of High Street, " standing backward in James ’ Street.