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Kilkenny was a fortified town which was divided into three self-contained walled districts: High Town was next to the Kilkenny Castle and bounded on the east by the River Nore; Irish Town was also bounded on the east by the River Nore and stood adjacent to the northern wall of High Town; St. John's was on the eastern bank of the River Nore and connected to High Town by St. John's Bridge.
To deter the use of Confederate Irish soldiers in England the Long Parliament passed the Ordinance of no quarter to the Irish in October 1644. The nuncio considered himself the virtual head of the Confederate Catholic party in Ireland. In 1646 the Supreme Council of the Confederates had come to an agreement with Ormonde, signed on 28 March 1646.
The Irish Confederate Wars, also called the Eleven Years' War (Irish: Cogadh na hAon-déag mBliana), took place in Ireland between 1641 and 1653. It was the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms , a series of civil wars in the kingdoms of Ireland , England and Scotland – all ruled by Charles I .
Butler, unlike most of his family, was a Protestant and throughout the Irish Confederate Wars of the 1640s was the representative of Charles I in Ireland. However, his castle became the capital of a Catholic rebel movement, Confederate Ireland , whose parliament or "Supreme Council" met in Kilkenny Castle from 1642 to 1648.
Lucas of Uppercourt, M.P.1613-15, died 27 July 1622, aged 56 years. His eldest son and heir, Robert, hosted the first assembly of an independent Irish state at his Kilkenny home in October 1642 (see Confederate Ireland) Thomas of Freneystown, died without issue October 1636. John, died 13 November 1633, leaving a son, Richard, and a daughter, Anne.
The Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, now the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (RSAI), was formed in the house in the 1870s. [8] [9] The house was refurbished in the 1970s by the Kilkenny Design Workshops which had taken over the Castle yard and house in 1965. In 1989 the house was opened as a hotel and ...