placenamesSaint Canice
Paróiste Chainnigh
The parish’s building history records design meetings, local materials and several ways of raising money.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Paróiste Chainnigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Saint Canice · English · main form
Place & story
Plans and local materials
Saint Canice’s Catholic parish history records adoption of William Robertson’s church design on 7 April 1822. Parishioners agreed to obtain stone from Holdensrath and sand from Kilkreene. Father James Gorman laid the foundation stone on 17 March 1824. The history distinguishes these dated steps from the church’s first public worship, for which it says an exact opening date has not been found. [2]
Finding money to continue
Around 1830, fundraising included selling burial plots in the new church grounds, initially for £5 and later £10. In 1831 his successor, Father John Gorman, sought parishioners’ approval for a £100 bank loan. This was a request to support continuing work, rather than a recorded completed loan. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kilkenny
- Barony
- Shillelogher
- Barony
- Crannagh
- Barony
- Kilkenny
- Coordinates
- 52.65947, -7.29013
- Mapped area
- 27.95 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1357 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Saint Canice. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Our Parish History: Saint Canice’s Catholic church, Kilkenny · Saint Canice’s Parish, Kilkenny
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.