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3 unusual facts about History of Kilkenny


History of Kilkenny

The Four Masters entry was the first instance where the capital was called Ceall-Cainnigh (modernised Kilkenny).

The Annals of the Four Masters recorded the first reference Cill Chainnigh in 1085.

A celebrated account from a monastery in Cill Chainnigh (Kilkenny), by Friar John Clyn in 1348 chronicles the plague as the beginning of the extinction of humanity and the end of the world.



see also

William Carrigan

Kilkenny had already seen two major historical works written in the 1880s, John Hogan’s History of Kilkenny and P. M. Egan's Guide to Kilkenny.