Kilculliheen

{{short description|Civil parish in County Kilkenny, Ireland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox settlement  | name = Barony of Kilculliheen | native_name = <small>{{Pad top italic|Cill Choilchín}}(Irish)</small><ref name=Government2003/>

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| pushpin_map = Ireland | pushpin_label_position = top | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Ireland

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| p4 = Ballyrobin | p5 = Rathculliheen

| p6 = Abbeylands | p7 = Christendom | p8 = Mountmisery | p9 = Mountsion

| p10 = Newrath

| p11 = Rockshire

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'''Kilculliheen''' ({{langx|ga|Cill Choilchín}}<ref group="l" name="wd-bar">[http://www.logainm.ie/253.aspx Kilculliheen (barony, Waterford)]</ref>) is a civil parish,<ref group="l" name="kk-cp">[http://www.logainm.ie/1314.aspx Kilculliheen (civil parish, Kilkenny)]</ref> electoral division<ref group="l" name="kk-ded">[https://www.logainm.ie/en/1373475 Kilculliheen (part) (ED, Kilkenny)]</ref> and barony<ref group="l" name="wd-bar"/> in Ireland, on the north bank of the River Suir across from the centre of Waterford City. Historically, it has been transferred several times between the county of the city of Waterford and the counties of Kilkenny and Waterford. It now contains the only part of Waterford city on the left bank of the River Suir. The ''Parliamentary Gazetteer'' of 1846 states "as it lies on the left bank of the Suir, which, for the most part, divides co. Waterford from co. Kilkenny, most topographists mistakenly assign it to the barony of Ida, co. Kilkenny".<ref name="parl-gazz">{{cite book |title=The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland adapted to the new Poor-Law, Franchise, Municipal and Ecclesiastical arrangements ... as existing in 1844–45 |year=1846 |publisher=A. Fullarton & Co |location=Dublin |page=391 |chapter=Kilculliheen|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4iK5_B7W1xIC&q=Kilculliheen&pg=PA391 |volume=II: D–M }}</ref> It is now partly in County Kilkenny and partly in Waterford City.<ref group="l" name="wd-bar"/><ref group="l" name="kk-bar2">[http://www.logainm.ie/121.aspx Kilculliheen (barony, Kilkenny)]</ref><ref name="kk-bar">{{cite web |url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2003/ga/si/0520.html |title=I.R. Uimh. 520/2003 — An tOrdú Logainmneacha (Contae Chill Chainnigh) 2003 |page=Schedule, Section A (Administrative units): Chapter 3 (Baronies): Number 9}}</ref> Of the barony's eleven townlands, five (Belmount, Ballinvoher, Newtown, Ballyrobin, and Rathculliheen<ref group="l" name="kk-tl">[http://www.logainm.ie/Children.aspx?parentID=121&typeID=BF townlands in Kilculliheen, Co Kilkenny]{{Dead link|date=January 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>) are entirely in Kilkenny and six (Abbeylands, Christendom, Mountmisery, Mountsion, Newrath, and Rockshire<ref group="l" name="kk-tl"/><ref group="l">{{Cite web |url=http://www.logainm.ie/Children.aspx?parentID=2443&typeID=BF |title=townlands in Kilculliheen, Co Waterford |access-date=8 February 2011 |archive-date=15 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915091734/http://www.logainm.ie/Children.aspx?parentID=2443&typeID=BF |url-status=dead }}</ref>) are split between Kilkenny and Waterford. The city portion contains the formerly rural village of Ferrybank, which gives its name to a wider suburb which has spread across the county boundary.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.munster-express.ie/opinion/over-ferrybank-way/|title=Over Ferrybank Way|date=6 June 2007|work=Munster Express|access-date=14 August 2010}}</ref>

==History== Kilculliheen is an anglicisation of {{lang|ga|Cill Choilchín}}, church of Coilcín or Cailcín, a saint of Celtic Christianity whose feast day is 10 February.<ref name="OWS">{{cite journal|date=Spring 1994 |first=Julian C. |last=Walton |title=Monumental Inscriptions at the Abbey, Kilculliheen, Ferrybank, Waterford by Michael O'Sullivan: Editor's Introduction |journal=Decies |publisher=Old Waterford Society |issue=49 |url=http://snap.waterfordcoco.ie/collections/ejournals/101014/101014.pdf#page=4 |page=2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929172253/http://snap.waterfordcoco.ie/collections/ejournals/101014/101014.pdf |archive-date=2011-09-29 }}</ref> Coilcín is also commemorated in the name of Rathculliheen, a townland within the parish. In 1151 Dermot MacMurrough founded St Mary's Abbey de Bello Portu, an Augustinian convent, at the presumed site of Coilcín's church in what is now the townland of Abbeylands.<ref name="OWS"/> It was a daughter house of the abbey of St Mary de Hoggis in Tallaght, and after the Norman invasion of Ireland was endowed by the future King John and David fitz Milo.<ref name="parl-gazz"/> In 1532, abbess Alice (or Elicie) Butler was deposed amid charges of sexual and financial impropriety; modern historians view her as a pawn in a jurisdictional dispute between the Bishop of Waterford and the Bishop of Ossory.<ref name="Bourke2002">{{cite book|last=Bourke|first=Angela|title=Irish women's writing and traditions. |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V01-76iQ48gC&pg=PA467|access-date=3 August 2014|series=The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing|volume=5|year=2002|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=9780814799062|pages=467–471|chapter=An instrument concerning Elicie Butler of Kilculliheen (1532)}}</ref><ref name="Mulholland1984">{{cite journal|last=Mulholland|first=John|date=January 1984|title=The trial of Alice Butler, Abbess of Kilculliheen, 1532|journal=Decies|publisher=Old Waterford Society|issue=XXV|pages=45–46|url=http://snap.waterfordcoco.ie/collections/ejournals/100743/100743-1.pdf#page=45}}</ref> At the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII, the abbey's lands were assigned to the Corporation of Waterford city, and six of its nuns granted compensation for the loss of its revenue.<ref name="OWS"/><ref name="Mulholland1984"/> Waterford's city charter of James I transferred the entire parish of Kilculliheen from Kilkenny to the county of the city of Waterford.<ref name="Lewis1837">{{cite book|last=Lewis|first=Samuel|author-link=Samuel Lewis (publisher) |chapter=Waterford |title=A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland|chapter-url=http://www.libraryireland.com/Lewis/LewisW/7a-WATERFORD.php/index.php|year=1837}}</ref> The Civil Survey of the 1650s surveyed the parish both as part of the barony of Ida in Kilkenny and again as part of the city of Waterford.<ref name="imc1942">{{cite book|last=Simington|first=Robert|title=County of Waterford, with appendices: Muskerry barony Co. Cork; Kilkenny City and Liberties (part); also valuations c. 1663–64 for Waterford and Cork cities|url=http://www.irishmanuscripts.ie/digital/The%20Civil%20Survey%20AD%201654-56%20Vol%20%20VI%20County%20of%20Waterford/pageflip.html|series=The Civil Survey A.D. 1654–56 |volume=VI|year=1942|publisher=Stationery Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission|pages=xxii–xxiii}}</ref>

In the 1830s only a sliver of land from Waterford Bridge to Ferrybank Catholic church was within the municipal boundary; the rest of the parish constituted the northern "liberties" of the city.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,661392,613102,4,7|title=Six-inch map centred on Ferrybank Catholic church|date=1830s|work=Mapviewer|publisher=Ordnance Survey Ireland|access-date=2 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829114800/http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,661392,613102,4,7|archive-date=29 August 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840 transferred the liberties of each city from the county of the city to the adjacent county-at-large. The application of this in regard to Kilculliheen was unclear, and the justices of the peace of County Kilkenny assumed it had been annexed to that county.<ref name="act1845">{{cite web|url=https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1845/act/121/section/10/enacted/en/html |title=8 & 9 Victoria c.121: Local Government (Drogheda and Meath) Act, 1845, Section 10 |work=Irish Statute Book |access-date=4 August 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811065513/http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1845/en/act/pub/0121/sec0010.html |archive-date=11 August 2014 }}</ref> When their error was discovered, an 1845 Act of Parliament was required to allow their judgments to stand.<ref name="act1845" /> The 1846 ''Parliamentary Gazetteer'' and the censuses of 1841 to 1861 described Kilculliheen as part of the Waterford barony of Gaultier.<ref name="parl-gazz"/> The 1871 census lists it as a barony, with footnote:<ref name="census1871">{{cite book|title=Census of Ireland, 1871; Vol.II, Province of Munster; Part VI, County and City of Waterford|url=http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/PageBrowser?path=Browse/Census%20(by%20date)/1871/Ireland&active=yes&mno=423&tocstate=expandnew&tocseq=38800&display=sections&display=tables&display=pagetitles&pageseq=first-nonblank|series=Command papers|volume=C.873-VI|year=1874|publisher=Alexander Thom for HMSO|page=865, note|chapter=III. Area, houses, and population in 1841, 1851, 1861, and 1871, of each barony, also the general valuation in 1871 (county and city)}}</ref> Kilculliheen did not appear as a barony in the Tables of previous censuses, it having formed a portion of Gaultiere barony. As, however, it has for some years past been described as a distinct barony in documents emanating from the office of the Privy Council and other Public Departments, it is so treated in these Tables.

After the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, an order of the Local Government Board subdivided the poor law electoral division of Waterford into seven district electoral divisions (DEDs), one called Kilculliheen consisting of "that portion of the original electoral division not included within the municipal boundary of the borough of Waterford, and situate north of the River Suir".<ref>Local Government Board (1899) pp.182–183</ref> A subsequent order transferred Kilculliheen DED from the judicial county of the city of Waterford to the administrative county Kilkenny.<ref>Local Government Board (1899) p.276</ref> In 1955, the county borough (now city) of Waterford was extended, thereby reclaiming some of the DED territory from Kilkenny.<ref>County Borough of Waterford (Extension of Boundary) Provisional Order, 1955, confirmed by [http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1955/en/act/prv/0001/sec0003.html section 3] of the Local Government Provisional Orders Confirmation Act, 1955.</ref><ref name="Office1957">{{cite book|last=Central Statistics Office|title=Census of population of Ireland|url=http://www.cso.ie/census/census_1956_results/Volume1/C%201956%20VOL%201%20explan.pdf#page=4|access-date=26 December 2010|edition=1956 |volume=1: population, area, and valuation of each district, electoral division, and of each larger unit of area|year=1957|publisher=Stationery Office|page=viii|chapter=Explanatory Notes}}</ref>

==See also== {{portal|Ireland|Kilkenny}}

*Barony (county division) *Barony (Ireland) *List of baronies of Ireland

==References==

===Notes=== From {{cite web |url=http://www.logainm.ie/?uiLang=en |title=Irish placenames database |publisher=Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media |work=logainm.ie |language=en, ga |access-date=13 August 2010}}: {{reflist |group="l"}}

===Footnotes=== <references>

<ref name=Government2003>{{Harvnb|Government|2003}}</ref>

<ref name=logainmKilculliheenKK>({{Harvnb|Fiontar|2008|loc=[https://www.logainm.ie/en/121 Kilculliheen/Cill Choilchín ]}})</ref>

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=== Sources === {{Refbegin}}  * {{cite web|author=Fiontar|author-link=Placenames Database of Ireland|title=Placenames Database of Ireland|url=http://www.logainm.ie/en/|website=logainm.ie|publisher=Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media of the Government of Ireland|date=2008}} * {{cite book|last1=Government|author-link=Government of Ireland|title=Placenames (Co. Kilkenny) Order 2003|date=2003|publisher=Government of Ireland|location=Dublin|url=http://www.logainm.ie/orduithe/an-tordu-logainmneacha-contae-chill-chainnigh-2003.pdf|access-date=14 November 2018|archive-date=10 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170210061037/https://www.logainm.ie/orduithe/an-tordu-logainmneacha-contae-chill-chainnigh-2003.pdf|url-status=dead}} *{{cite book |author=Local Government Board for Ireland |title=Twenty-seventh report |url=http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/19739 |series=Command papers |volume=Cmd.9480 |year=1899 |pages=182–183 |archive-date=4 October 2013 |access-date=4 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004215255/http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/19739 |url-status=dead }}  {{Refend}}

==External links== * {{cite web|title=Barony of Kilculliheen, Co. Kilkenny|url=https://www.townlands.ie/waterford/kilculliheen2/|website=townlands.ie}} {{Kilkenny-baronies}} {{Waterford-baronies}}

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