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County Kilkenny

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County Kilkenny
Contae Chill Chainnigh

Location

Statistics

Province:

Leinster

County Town:

Kilkenny

Code:

Area:

2,061 km²

Population (2006)

87,394

Website: www.kilkennycoco.ie

County Kilkenny (Contae Chill Chainnigh in Irish) is located in the south east of Ireland in the province of Leinster. It is named after Kilkenny, the main city in the region.

Inhabitants of Kilkenny are often referred to as "Kilkenny Cats"; the phrase is also used to describe the Kilkenny Hurling team, one of the strongest in the country.

It was formerly the Kingdom of Osraige, which existed from at least the 2nd century A.D. until the 13th century. The current Catholic ecclesiastical dioceses of that area is still known as Ossory however the original kingdom was bounded by two of the Three Sisters the rivers Barrow and Suir. The northern limit was, generally, the Slieve Bloom Mountains.

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[edit] Sport

Kilkenny has a successful hurling team, known as "The Cats", this name is derived from the saying "to fight like Kilkenny cats". The Kilkenny team has won the All-Ireland championships in hurling 29 times, their most recent win being the 2006 championship, where they defeated rivals Cork.

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Counties of Ireland

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Connacht: Galway ^* (~City ^*) • Leitrim ^* • Mayo ^* • Roscommon ^* • Sligo ^*

Munster: Clare ^* • Cork ^* (~City ^*) • Kerry ^* • Limerick ^* (~City ^*) • Tipperary ^* (North~ ^*; South~ ^*) • Waterford ^* (~City ^*)

Leinster: Carlow ^* • Dublin ^* (~City ^*; Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown ^*; Fingal ^*; South~ ^*) • Kildare ^* • Kilkenny ^* • Laois ^* • Longford ^* • Louth ^* • Meath ^* • Offaly ^* • Westmeath ^* • Wexford ^* • Wicklow ^*

Ulster: Antrim ^† • Armagh ;^† • Cavan ^* • Donegal ^* • Down ^† • Fermanagh ^† • Londonderry ^† • Monaghan ^* • Tyrone ^†

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