The city comprised parts of four parishes, and the new county covered the whole of each, with the area outside the borough forming the "liberties" of the city.
Irishtown, Kilkenny, aka manor of Newcourt or borough of St Canice's
After the Statutes of Kilkenny the city was divided into two boroughs called Irishtown and Englishtown, a situation that wasn’t uncommon in a country occupied for so long by the English.