Kilculliheen ( ga, Cill ChoilchínKilculliheen (barony, Waterford)
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,Kilculliheen (civil parish, Kilkenny)
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electoral division An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other poli ...

Kilculliheen (part) (ED, Kilkenny)
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barony Barony may refer to: * Barony, the peerage, office of, or territory held by a baron * Barony, the title and land held in fealty by a feudal baron * Barony (county division), a type of administrative or geographical division in parts of the British ...

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

, on the north bank of the

River Suir The River Suir ( ; ga, an tSiúr or ''Abhainn na Siúire'' ) is a river in Ireland that flows into the Atlantic Ocean through Waterford after a distance of . The catchment area of the Suir is 3,610 km2.

across from the centre of

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. Historically, it has been transferred several times between the

county of the city A county corporate or corporate county was a type of subnational division used for local government in England, Wales, and Ireland. Counties corporate were created during the Middle Ages, and were effectively small self-governing county-empowere ...

of Waterford and the counties of

Kilkenny Kilkenny (). is a city in County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is located in the South-East Region and in the province of Leinster. It is built on both banks of the River Nore. The 2016 census gave the total population of Kilkenny as 26,512. Kilken ...

and

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. It now contains the only part of Waterford city on the left bank of the

. 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 mistakingly assign it to the

barony of Ida Ida () is a barony in the south-east of County Kilkenny, Ireland. Ida is made up of 16 civil parishes containing 191 townlands, it is one of 12 baronies in the County. The barony is in size, with highest point at Tory Hill. The chief town i ...

, co. Kilkenny". It is now partly in County Kilkenny and partly in Waterford City.Kilculliheen (barony, Kilkenny)
/ref> Of the barony's eleven

townland A townland ( ga, baile fearainn; Ulster-Scots: ''toonlann'') is a small geographical division of land, historically and currently used in Ireland and in the Western Isles in Scotland, typically covering . The townland system is of Gaelic origi ...

s, five (Belmount, Ballinvoher, Newtown, Ballyrobin, and Rathculliheentownlands in Kilculliheen, Co Kilkenny
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/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.

History

Kilculliheen is an anglicisation of , church of Coilcín or Cailcín, a

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Celtic Christianity Celtic Christianity ( kw, Kristoneth; cy, Cristnogaeth; gd, Crìosdaidheachd; gv, Credjue Creestee/Creestiaght; ga, Críostaíocht/Críostúlacht; br, Kristeniezh; gl, Cristianismo celta) is a form of Christianity that was common, or held ...

whose feast day is 10 February. Coilcín is also commemorated in the name of Rathculliheen, a townland within the parish. In 1151

Dermot MacMurrough Diarmait Mac Murchada (Modern Irish: Diarmaid Mac Murchadha), anglicised as Dermot MacMurrough, Dermod MacMurrough, or Dermot MacMorrogh (c. 1110 – c. 1 May 1171), was a King of Leinster in Ireland. In 1167, he was deposed by the High King ...

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. It was a daughter house of the abbey of St Mary de Hoggis in

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, and after the

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was endowed by the future King John and David fitz Milo. 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 The Bishop of Waterford was a medieval prelate, governing the Diocese of Waterford from its creation in the 11th century until it was absorbed into the new Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore in the 14th century. After the creation of ...

and the

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. At the dissolution of the monasteries under

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, the abbey's lands were assigned to the

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of Waterford city, and six of its nuns granted compensation for the loss of its revenue. Waterford's

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James I James I may refer to: People *James I of Aragon (1208–1276) *James I of Sicily or James II of Aragon (1267–1327) *James I, Count of La Marche (1319–1362), Count of Ponthieu *James I, Count of Urgell (1321–1347) *James I of Cyprus (1334–13 ...

transferred the entire parish of Kilculliheen from Kilkenny to the

of Waterford. The

Civil Survey The Civil Survey was a cadastral survey of landholdings in Ireland carried out in 1654–56. It was separate from the Down Survey, which began while the Civil Survey was in progress, and made use of Civil Survey data to guide its progress. Whereas ...

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. 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. The

Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840 The Municipal Corporations Act (Ireland) 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 108), ''An Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland'', was passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 10 August 1840. It was one of the Municipal Corporati ...

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 A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the sa ...

of County Kilkenny assumed it had been annexed to that county. When their error was discovered, an 1845 Act of Parliament was required to allow their judgments to stand. The 1846 ''Parliamentary Gazetteer'' and the censuses of 1841 to 1861 described Kilculliheen as part of the Waterford barony of Gaultier. The 1871 census lists it as a barony, with footnote: 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 The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 37) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that established a system of local government in Ireland similar to that already created for England, ...

, an order of the Local Government Board subdivided the

poor law In English and British history, poor relief refers to government and ecclesiastical action to relieve poverty. Over the centuries, various authorities have needed to decide whose poverty deserves relief and also who should bear the cost of hel ...

electoral division of Waterford into seven

district electoral division An electoral division (ED, ) is a legally defined administrative area in the Republic of Ireland, generally comprising multiple townlands, and formerly a subdivision of urban and rural districts. Until 1996, EDs were known as district electora ...

s (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". A subsequent order transferred Kilculliheen DED from the judicial county of the city of Waterford to the

administrative county An administrative county was a first-level administrative division in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974, and in Ireland from 1899 until either 1973 (in Northern Ireland) or 2002 (in the Republic of Ireland). They are now abolished, although mos ...

Kilkenny. In 1955, the

county borough County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to refer to a borough or a city independent of county council control, similar to the unitary authorities created since the 1990s. An equivalent ter ...

(now city) of Waterford was extended, thereby reclaiming some of the DED territory from Kilkenny.County Borough of Waterford (Extension of Boundary) Provisional Order, 1955, confirmed b
section 3
of the Local Government Provisional Orders Confirmation Act, 1955.

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Kilculliheen Kilculliheen ( ga, Cill Choilchín) is a civil parish, electoral division and barony 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 coun ...