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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
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 40 - Messages: 170
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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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