The Four Masters entry was the first instance where the capital was called Ceall-Cainnigh (modernised Kilkenny).
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The Annals of the Four Masters recorded the first reference Cill Chainnigh in 1085.
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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.
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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.