The kilkenny Surname

kilkenny Name Meaning and History

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Chainnigh ‘son of the devotee of (Saint) Cainneach’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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kilkenny Family Facts

Distribution of kilkenny Families in the US in 1920

Number of kilkenny families

17-31

6-16

1-5

Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Thread	Author	Replies
Anthony Kilkenny	Sean Zinn	9
Looking for my branch of the 'Kilkennys'	ElaineCordingley	16
Birth Certificates	touchinhands	0
John Connors Ballyhale Kilkenny	nbrighton1	0
Kilkenny	mintdogs	1
Kilkenny family	C. Wilson	28
Kilkenny, gaghen, Kelly, ireland born	noksite1	0
KIlkenny decendants	@@dideyjohn@yahoo.com	0
James and Patrick Kilkenny	@@dideyjohn@yahoo.com	0
Kilkenney family in England	Sandy Lovell	1

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