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County Kilkenny

Cill Chainnigh · Leinster

The outline of County Kilkenny, drawn from official boundary data.

Kilkenny was the capital of the Irish Catholic Confederation during the 1640s.

Kilkenny Castle in County Kilkenny
Kilkenny Castle Photo by No machine-readable author provided. Tolivero~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons source
Irish name
Cill Chainnigh
Province
Leinster
Best known for
Kilkenny Castle
Land borders
5

Towns in County Kilkenny

Towns and villages in Kilkenny include Callan, Castlecomer, Kilkenny, Thomastown and Graiguenamanagh.

Which counties border Kilkenny?

Kilkenny shares a land border with 5 of Ireland’s other counties: Laois, Tipperary, Carlow, Waterford, Wexford.

Guess Kilkenny in the daily game

County Craic is a free daily puzzle covering all 32 counties of Ireland. Some days the clue is an outline like the one above, some days a landmark photograph, a pair of real towns, a pin on the map, a written clue or a famous face. You get six guesses, and every wrong one tells you how far off you are and which way to go.

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