Castlecomer Civil Parish, County Kilkenny
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Surnames/tags: Castlecomer Kilkenny Leinster
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- This information page for the Civil Parish contains a list of all the townlands in the parish and links to the category for the townland (if it has been created). There also may be notes about the individual townlands.
- This page is maintained by the County Kilkenny team
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Castlecomer Civil Parish
- Irish or Alternate Name: Caisleán an Chomair.
- Logainm Link: Castlecomer Parish on Logainm.ie
- Barony: Fassadinin
- Province: Leinster
Introduction
Population Centres of Castlecomer Civil Parish
- Note: Population centres for this Parish, where known, are shown here. For a full list see Towns of County Kilkenny
Castlecomer Town (pop 1,502)
- Irish or Alternate Name: Caisleán an Chomair.
- Web page for Castlecomer Town
- Map: Google Maps OpenStreetMap
- Places Nearby: Click for list
- Castlecomer is a town in the north of County Kilkenny. It is positioned at the meeting of N78 and R694 roads about 16 km (9.9 miles) north of Kilkenny city. The town has been associated with the coal mining industry since the 17th century, and is part of a discrete area called the Castlecomer Plateau.
Clogh
- Irish or Alternate Name: An Chloch.
- Web page for Clogh
- Map: Google Maps OpenStreetMap
- Places Nearby: Click for list
Coolbaun
- Irish or Alternate Name: An Cúl Bán.
- Map: Google Maps OpenStreetMap
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The Townlands of Castlecomer Civil Parish
- The townlands in Castlecomer Parish (Caisleán an Chomair) are those taken from Castlecomer Parish on Logainm.ie and validated against townlands on the 1851, 1871 and 1901 Lists of Towns and Townlands and Griffiths valuations data. A link is provided in the notes for the 1901 and 1911 census. Please note that these may not always work if the townland was not available on the census in question. The census site may also substitute a similar name so be prepared for unexpected results!
- If the townland has a category it will be linked in the table below. If there is no link and you need the category please contact David to get the category created or put in a request for the category to be created. Alternatively, if you feel condifent to do so, see Townland Category Information Boxes below for how to create them yourself.
Resources
External Resources
- A list of external resources for this parish may be placed here. More general souces for Kilkenny should be added to the main Kilkenny page.
- Whilst care is taken to ensure links are not made to disreputable, phishing or other sites of doubtful integrity it is your responsibility to ensure that you are not going to such a site by clicking on one of the links which may have been added after this page was created.
Townland Category Information Boxes
- For the full 'How to' on creating Irish location categories please read 'Creating Location Categories for Ireland'
- The pre-formatted line for each townland and the fully formatted CIB header can be seen below this page when in edit mode. Please ensure you have read the 'How to' before doing anything. Briefly, the pre-formatted line in the hidden text is used to replace the line above. The CIB text is pasted into the category which is created by clicking on the red category link.
Version Notes
- Parish format version 3.5. Addition of 'Places Nearby' link where coordinates are known. Upgrading Logainm links to match new Logainm web site.
Sources
- Information shown on this page may have been sourced from one or more of the following sources.
- Logainm.ie The Placenames Database of Ireland created by Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge in collaboration with The Placenames Branch (Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht).
- Griffiths Valuation AskAboutIreland.ie and the Cultural Heritage Project is an initiative of public libraries together with local museums and archives.
- Townlands.ie Irish Townlands derived from OpenStreetMap data under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL).
- Census of Ireland 1901/1911 and Census fragments and substitutes, 1821-51
- List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland and List of towns and villages in Northern Ireland
- General alphabetical index to townlands and towns, parishes and baronies of Ireland Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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