Kilkenny
Kilkenny is the county town of County Kilkenny 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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- City with about 22,200 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 60 metres (200 feet)
- Description: city in County Kilkenny, Ireland
- Also known as“Cantae Chill Chainnigh”“Cill Chainnigh”“County Kilkenny”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kilkenny Castle and Kilkenny MacDonagh railway station.
Kilkenny MacDonagh railway station
Railway station
Kilkenny railway station serves the city of Kilkenny in County Kilkenny.
Kilkenny
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Latitude
52.6506° or 52° 39′ 2″ north
Longitude
-7.2514° or 7° 15′ 5″ west
Open location code
9C4JMP2X+6C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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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”
- Mongolian: “Килькенни”
- 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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