Families of County Kilkenny
The Nore, the marble city, the Butler seat, Kilkenny Castle and the Statutes of 1366.
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Families of County Kilkenny
Historic ties to Kilkenny
Families with historic but not core ground in this county.
Champions of County Kilkenny
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in County Kilkenny.
- James PowerThe Kilkenny publican who in 1791 set up a small pot-still at the corner of Thomas Street and John's Lane in Dublin and built from it the Power's distillery that by the 1880s was the largest single-distillery operation in the world.
- Turlough O'CarolanThe Meath-born blind harper of the late-Gaelic Connacht courts whose two hundred and twenty surviving airs, composed between roughly 1690 and his death in 1738 across his itinerant career through the Anglo-Irish and Gaelic gentry houses of Connacht and Ulster, constitute the foundational corpus of the modern Irish harp tradition.
Stories told here
Legends set in County Kilkenny, from any family that carries them.