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Kilkenny

Kilkenny is the county town of in southeast Ireland, with a population of 27,000 in 2022. At its core is the medieval city founded by the Normans, and in the 1640s it was effectively the capital of Ireland.
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  • Type: City with 27,200 residents
  • Description: city in County Kilkenny, Ireland
  • Also known as: “Cantae Chill Chainnigh”, “Cill Chainnigh”, and “County Kilkenny”
Photo: J.Pollock, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: drej84, CC BY 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kilkenny Castle and Kilkenny MacDonagh railway station.

Photo: Tolivero, Public domain.
is a castle in Kilkenny, , built in 1260 to control a fording-point of the and the junction of several routeways. It was a symbol of Norman occupation, and in its original 13th-century condition, it would have formed…

Railway station
Photo: Irish Typepad, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kilkenny railway station serves the city of Kilkenny in . It is a station on the Dublin to Waterford intercity route. and was given the name MacDonagh on 10 April 1966 in commemoration of Thomas MacDonagh, one of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916.

Church
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Canice's Cathedral, also known as Kilkenny Cathedral, is a Church of Ireland cathedral in Kilkenny city, . It is in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin.

Kilkenny

Latitude
52.6506° or 52° 39′ 2″ north
Longitude
-7.2514° or 7° 15′ 5″ west
Population
27,200
Elevation
73 metres (240 feet)
Open location code
9C4JMP2X+7C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 428339466
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2963397
Wiki­data ID
Q109092
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Kilkenny” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kilkenny”
  • Arabic: “كيلكيني”
  • Asturian: “Kilkenny”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kilkenni”
  • Basque: “Kilkenny”
  • Breton: “Cill Chainnigh”
  • Bulgarian: “Килкени”
  • Catalan: “Kilkenny”
  • Cebuano: “Kilkenny (kapital sa kondado)”
  • Cebuano: “Kilkenny”
  • Chinese: “基坎尼”
  • Chinese: “基尔肯尼”
  • Chinese: “啟耳肯尼”
  • Czech: “Kilkenny”
  • Danish: “Cill Chainnigh”
  • Danish: “Kilkenny”
  • Dutch: “Kilkenny”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيلكينى”
  • Esperanto: “Cill Chainnigh”
  • Finnish: “Kilkenny”
  • French: “Cill Chainnigh”
  • French: “Kilkenny”
  • Galician: “Cill Chainnigh”
  • Galician: “Kilkenny”
  • Georgian: “კილკენი”
  • German: “Cill Chainnigh”
  • German: “Kilkenny”
  • Greek: “Κίλκενι”
  • Hebrew: “קילקני”
  • Hungarian: “Kilkenny”
  • Indonesian: “Kilkenny”
  • Irish: “Cathair Chill Chainnigh”
  • Irish: “Cill Chainnigh”
  • Irish: “Kilkenny”
  • Italian: “Kilkenny”
  • Japanese: “キルケニー”
  • Kazakh: “Kïlkennï”
  • Kazakh: “Килкенни”
  • Kazakh: “كىيلكەننىي”
  • Korean: “킬케니”
  • Latin: “Canicopolis”
  • Latin: “Cill Chainnigh”
  • Latin: “Kilkennia”
  • Latvian: “Kilkeni”
  • Lithuanian: “Kilkenis”
  • Lithuanian: “Kilkenny”
  • Lithuanian: “Kilkeny”
  • Low German: “Kilkenny”
  • Manx: “Keeill Chennee”
  • Mingrelian: “კილკენი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kilkenny”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kilkenny”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cill Chainnigh”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kilkenny”
  • Norwegian: “Kilkenny”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kilkenny”
  • Persian: “کیلکنی”
  • Polish: “Kilkenny”
  • Portuguese: “Kilkenny”
  • Romanian: “Kilkenny”
  • Russian: “Килкенни”
  • Scots: “Kilkenny”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cill Chainnigh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kilkenny”
  • Serbian: “Kilkeni”
  • Serbian: “Kilkenny”
  • Serbian: “Килкени”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kilkenny”
  • Silesian: “Kilkenny”
  • Slovak: “Kilkenny”
  • Slovenian: “Kilkenny”
  • Spanish: “Cill Chainnigh”
  • Spanish: “Kilkenny”
  • Swahili: “Kilkenny”
  • Swedish: “Cill Chainnigh”
  • Swedish: “Kilkenny”
  • Tamil: “கில்கென்னி”
  • Turkish: “Kilkenny”
  • Ukrainian: “Кілкенні”
  • Urdu: “کلکینی”
  • Volapük: “Cill Chainnigh”
  • Welsh: “Cill Chainnigh”
  • Welsh: “Kilkenny”
  • Western Frisian: “Kilkenny”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kilkenny”. Photo: AFBorchert, CC BY-SA 3.0.