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Kilkenny
Kilkenny is a city in south-east Ireland on the River Nore, the county town of County Kilkenny. It grew around a monastery of St Canice, from whom its Irish name Cill Chainnigh comes, and became the seat of the bishops of Ossory. The Anglo-Norman lord William Marshal developed the town and granted its charter, and in the 1640s it was the seat of the Confederate Catholic government of Ireland.
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