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Compiled by Thomas Innes and enumerated by Richard Power at a request by William Tighe of Woodstock Estate, Inistioge, The 1831 Census is regarded as the second census of Ireland.
With previous iterations of a pre-famine census having been lost in…

Minute book of Ballyragget Branch of Irish National League 1883-1887

A lease to William Outlaw dating back to 1305. Outlaw was a very notable figure in Medieval Kilkenny and was the son of Dame Alice Kyteler, the woman behind possibly the most notorious witchcraft trial in history.

Petition of Patrick FitzGerald to the Corporation of Kilkenny, referring to the common dyke of the south side of St.John's Street; which is decayed and in no way fensible to the great terror and danger of the inhabitants of the street, who live in…

Note how this letter is signed at the top by ten-year old King Edward VI and signed by Edward Seymour at the bottom. Following the death of both his parents, King Edward VI was placed under the guardianship of his Uncle, Edward Seymour who also acted…

This Charter is addressed to the Burgesses in the city, which included the most powerful families in Kilkenny in the 1300's. It grants these individuals certain rights which were not afforded to the civilian population, including the right to refrain…

Copy of an order by the Lord Deputy that Richard Kingstone be allowed to hauke for provision in any parte of Ireland for Partridge and pheasant and to will and require all men whom it may concern to permit and suffer him to do, and that he may…

A letter from King William III to the Corporation of Kilkenny re-asserting Williamite (Protestant) command of the county following the defeat of the Jacobite forces in Ireland at the Battle of the Boyne. This was received by the Corporation at the…