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This is a list of Kilkenny people including those who were born in County Kilkenny, in Ireland and have lived there for most of their lives.Also included on the list are people who were not born in County Kilkenny, but have lived there for most of their lives or are associated with County Kilkenny.
Kilkenny is a surname. Notable persons with that surname include: Allison Kilkenny (born 1983), American journalist and podcaster; Jimmy Kilkenny (1934–2003), footballer; John C. Kilkenny, film executive; John Kilkenny (1901–1995), U.S. federal judge; Mike Kilkenny (1945–2018), Canadian baseball player
Several surnames have multiple spellings; this is sometimes due to unrelated families bearing the same surname. A single surname in either language may have multiple translations in the other. In some English translations of the names, the M(a)c- prefix may be omitted in the English, e.g. Bain vs MacBain, Cowan vs MacCowan, Ritchie vs MacRitchie.
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of clans, peers and landed gentry families in Ireland. Most of the houses belonged to the Old English and Anglo-Irish aristocracy, and many of those located in the present Republic of Ireland were abandoned, sold or destroyed following the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War of the early 1920s.
Map showing principal Irish surnames at the commencement of the 17th century. Clans of Ireland is a modern organization that was started in 1989 and has eligibility criteria for surnames to be included on their register of Irish clans. This includes that the family or clan can trace their ancestry back to before 1691 which is generally ...
Forrestal, Forristal, Forestell, or Forstall (Irish: Ó Fuireastal), is an ancient Irish surname from the southeast of Ireland, and still exists today primarily in the counties of Kilkenny, Wexford and Waterford. Settlement has also been established in Southampton England
Tobin (Irish: Tóibín, pronounced [t̪ˠoːˈbʲiːnʲ]; from the Norman surname Saint Aubin, originated with Saint Albinus) is an Irish surname of Norman origin. [1]The Anglo-French Saint Aubin family arrived in Ireland in the wake of the Norman invasion in the 12th century [2] and settled in Counties Tipperary and Kilkenny, and subsequently spread to the neighbouring counties of Cork and ...
Butler arms at Kilkenny Castle. Butler (Irish: de Buitléir) is the name of a noble family whose members were, for several centuries, prominent in the administration of the Lordship of Ireland and the Kingdom of Ireland.
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