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Kilkenny Castle (Irish: ... is a castle in Kilkenny, Ireland, built in 1260 to control a fording-point of the River Nore and the junction of several routeways.
Kilkenny Castle was built by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, [1] to control a fording-point of the River Nore and the junction of several routeways. Births
Following the 12th-century Norman invasion of Ireland, Kilkenny Castle and a series of walls were built to protect the burghers of what became a Norman merchant town. [7] William Marshall, Lord of Leinster, gave Kilkenny a charter as a town in 1207. By the late 13th century, Kilkenny was under Hiberno-Norman control.
Map of the city of Kilkenny (1708). Old city map, c.1780. The history of Kilkenny (from Irish Cill Chainnigh 'Cell or church of Cainnech/Canice') began with an early sixth-century ecclesiastical foundation, this relates to a church built in honour of St. Canice, now St. Canice's Cathedral and was a major monastic centre from at least the eighth century.
The current site of the courthouse in Kilkenny is on the site of the castle known as Grace's Old Castle. This was originally built by William le Gras some time before 1210, le Gras having been appointed constable and Seneschal of Leinster for life, and Governor of Kilkenny. [3]
The O'Kennedys and their native Irish allies were able to drive the Butler dynasty out from Nenagh Castle in 1391 and set themselves up there (these Butlers moved out to Kilkenny Castle). In 2011, Australian author and historian Brian Patrick Kennedy organised the first Kennedy clan gathering in Rearcross, Co. Tipperary. This gathering was to ...
The Irish state has officially approved the following list of national monuments in County Kilkenny.In the Republic of Ireland, a structure or site may be deemed to be a "national monument", and therefore worthy of state protection, if it is of national importance.
After the Norman invasion of Ireland, the Anglo-Normans built Kilkenny Castle near by as the seat of the new County of Kilkenny, which had largely the same extent as the Kingdom of Ossory. Two separate boroughs were recognised: the "English Town" or "High Town" of the colonists around the Castle, and the Gaelic "Irish Town" around the Cathedral ...