Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Kilkenny. You may be able to find further references to Kilkenny in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Kilkenny	parliamentary and municipal borough	Bartholomew
KILKENNY	a city and, including Irishtown, a county of itself	Lewis:Ireland

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Kilkenny within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Arthur Young	11th to 20th July 1776: Kilkenny, Wexford, Wicklow and Dublin	3
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	2
Arthur Young	1st to 10th July 1776: Westmeath, Carlow, King's and Queen's Counties	2
John Wesley	1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer