Kilkenny

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kilkenny (Irish: Cill Chainnigh, meaning cell or church of Cainnech) is a city and is the county town of the eponymous County Kilkenny in Ireland. It is situated on both banks of the River Nore in the province of Leinster, in the south-east of Ireland. The city is administered by a Borough Council and a Mayor which is a level below that of city council in the Local government of the Republic although the Local Government Act 2001 allows for the continued use of the description city. The borough has a population of 8,661, however the majority of the population live outside the borough boundary, the 2006 Irish Census gives the total population of the Borough Environs as 22,179.