Kilculliheen

Kilculliheen (Irish: Cill Choilchín^{[l 1]}) is a civil parish,^{[l 2]} electoral division^{[l 3]} and barony^{[l 1]} 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 borough 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 mistakingly assign it to the barony of Ida, co. Kilkenny".^[1] It is now partly in County Kilkenny and partly in Waterford City.^{[l 1][l 4][2]} Of the barony's eleven townlands, five (Belmount, Ballinvoher, Newtown, Ballyrobin, and Rathculliheen^{[l 5]}) are entirely in Kilkenny and six (Abbeylands, Christendom, Mountmisery, Mountsion, Newrath, and Rockshire^{[l 5][l 6]}) are split between Kilkenny and Waterford. The city portion contains the former village of Ferrybank, which gives its name to a wider suburb which has spread across the county boundary.^[3] Of

History

Kilculliheen is an anglicisation of Cill Choilchín, church of Coilcín or Cailcín, a saint of Celtic Christianity whose feast day is 10 February.^[4] 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.^[4] 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.^[1] At the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII, the abbey's lands were assigned to the Corporation of Waterford city.^[4] Waterford's city charter of James I transferred the entire parish of Kilculliheen from Kilkenny to the county of the city of Waterford.^[5] 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 transferred the liberties from the county of the city to County Waterford, where it was initially attached to the Barony of Gaultier,^[1] and subsequently made into a barony in its own right. The Irish Poor Law Act of 1838 established a District Electoral Division (DED) of Kilculliheen , coterminous with the parish, within the Poor Law Union of Waterford. After the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, an order of the Local Government Board transferred Kilculliheen DED from Waterford to Kilkenny. In 1955, the county borough (now city) of Waterford was extended, thereby reclaiming some of the DED territory from Kilkenny.^[6][7]

References

From "Irish placenames database" (in English and Irish). logainm.ie. Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. http://www.logainm.ie/?uiLang=en. Retrieved 13 August 2010. :

1. ^ ^{a b c} Kilculliheen (barony, Waterford)
2. ^ Kilculliheen (civil parish, Kilkenny)
3. ^ Kilculliheen (part)(DED, Kilkenny)
4. ^ Kilculliheen (barony, Kilkenny)
5. ^ ^{a b} townlands in Kilculliheen, Co Kilkenny
6. ^ townlands in Kilculliheen, Co Waterford

From other sources:

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Kilculliheen". The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland adapted to the new Poor-Law, Franchise, Municipal and Ecclesiastical arrangements ... as existing in 1844–45. II: D–M. Dublin: A. Fullarton & Co. 1846. p. 391. http://books.google.com/books?id=4iK5_B7W1xIC&vq=Kilculliheen&pg=PA391#q=Kilculliheen&f=false. 
2. ^ "I.R. Uimh. 520/2003 — An tOrdú Logainmneacha (Contae Chill Chainnigh) 2003". p. Schedule, Section A (Administrative units): Chapter 3 (Baronies): Number 9. http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2003/ga/si/0520.html. 
3. ^ "Over Ferrybank Way". Munster Express. 6 June 2007. http://www.munster-express.ie/opinion/over-ferrybank-way/. Retrieved 14 August 2010. 
4. ^ ^{a b c} Walton, Julian C. (Spring 1994). "Monumental Inscriptions at the Abbey, Kilculliheen, Ferrybank, Waterford by Michael O'Sullivan: Editor's Introduction". Decies (Old Waterford Society) (49): 2. http://snap.waterfordcoco.ie/collections/ejournals/101014/101014.pdf#page=4. 
5. ^ Lewis, Samuel (1837). "Waterford". A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. http://www.libraryireland.com/Lewis/LewisW/7a-WATERFORD.php/index.php. 
6. ^ County Borough of Waterford (Extension of Boundary) Provisional Order, 1955, confirmed by section 3 of the Local Government Provisional Orders Confirmation Act, 1955.
7. ^ Central Statistics Office (1957). "Explanatory Notes". Census of population of Ireland. 1: population, area, and valuation of each district, electoral division, and of each larger unit of area (1956 ed.). Stationery Office. p. viii. http://www.cso.ie/census/census_1956_results/Volume1/C%201956%20VOL%201%20explan.pdf#page=4. Retrieved 26 December 2010.