The barony of Shillelogher () is a

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 ...

in the west of

County Kilkenny County Kilkenny ( gle, Contae Chill Chainnigh) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Leinster and is part of the South-East Region. It is named after the city of Kilkenny. Kilkenny County Council is the local authority for the cou ...

, Ireland. The barony is in size. It is one of 12 baronies in County Kilkenny. There are 19 civil parishes in Shillelogher, made up of 109 townlands. The chief town is

Bennettsbridge Bennettsbridge () is a village in County Kilkenny in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is situated on the River Nore south of Kilkenny city, in the centre of the county. Bennettsbridge is a census town, and has population of 745 as of the 2016 ...

. Shillelogher lies at the centre of the county, with the baronies of

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and

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to the north (whose chief towns are Freshford and

, and the barony of

Gowran Gowran (; ) is a town located on the eastern side of County Kilkenny, Ireland. The historic St. Mary's Collegiate Church is located in the centre of Gowran close to Gowran Castle. Gowran Park race course and Golf Course is located one km from t ...

to the east (whose chief towns is

). It is borders County Tipperary to the west. The N76 road bisects the barony. The river Nore flows through the barony. Danesfort Church is located in Shillelogher. Shillelogher was an early medieval cantred within the

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of Kilkenny, and part of the historic kingdom of Osraige (''Ossory''). Today it is part of the Roman Catholic Church diocese of Ossory and the Church of Ireland diocese of Cashel and Ossory. Shillelogher is currently administered by

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Etymology

There have been many variations of the name, but all are anglicized variations form the old Irish name, 'Síol Fhaolchair', which means – territory of the ''Descendants of Fáelchar''. The 'f' would be silent and 'l' easily commuted with 'r'. So the name appears under many forms in ancient records, such as 'Stilyker' (1333), 'Sillr', Silelogher, Shillekyr, Shyllekyr, Sylerekyll (1450), Sylerker (1480), in the

Red Book of Ossory The ''Red Book of Ossory'' is a medieval manuscript produced in Kilkenny, Ireland, and kept in St Canice's Cathedral. The manuscript contains a number of texts in Latin and in Anglo-Norman. The sixth gathering of the MS contains the ''Proverbes de ...

, Sillelogher (1303), 'Sileyrthir', 'shillegher' or 'shilleligher' in 1587, 'Shillekyr' and 'Shillecher' in 1608; 'Shelogher' in 1657; and 'Sleewloger', 'Shellelogher' and 'Shilliliger'.

History

Named as, ''Descendants of Fáelchar territory''. Fáelchar ua Máele Ódrain was a king of Osraige, descended from Óengus Osrithe. The Norman family of Wall was based there. In 1358 it appears as the 'cantred of Silyrthir' and perhaps included the barony of Crannagh as well as the barony of Shillelogher. Shillelogher was recorded in the Down Survey (1656), the 1842 Ordnance Survey map, and on

Griffith's Valuation Griffith's Valuation was a boundary and land valuation survey of Ireland completed in 1868. Griffith's background Richard John Griffith started to value land in Scotland, where he spent two years in 1806-1807 valuing terrain through the examinati ...

(1864). It was established by 1672 and depicted in ''Hiberniae Delineatio'', "Perry's Atlas", engraved in 1671-2 by William Petty from the data of the Down Survey.

Geography

The river Nore flows through the barony. Shillelogher contains the towns of

and the settlements of Stonyford, Danesfort, and Grange. Danesfort Church is in Shillelogher. There are 19 civil parishes in Shillelogher. These include; Ballybur,

Burnchurch Burnchurch is a civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish in Shillelogher (barony), Shillelogher, County Kilkenny, Ireland. It has an area of . Etymology The name of the parish derives from the townland of Burnchurch situated within the parish. T ...

, Castleinch, Danesfort, Earlstown, Ennisnag, Grange, Grangekilree, Kells, Kilferagh, Killaloe, Outrath, St. Canice, St. John's, St. Patrick's, Stonecarthy, Treadingstown, Tullaghanbrogue, and Tullamaine. Parts of the barony were in the Poor law unions of Callan, Kilkenny, and Thomastown.

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