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Freshford

Achadh Úr

The Kilkenny townland has its own return, distinct from Freshford’s larger built-up settlement.

Watercolour and fine ink view through the tree-lined Uppercourt entrance beside Freshford, with stone walls and a cattle grid.
Illustration, the Uppercourt demesne entrance near Freshford, County Kilkenny, as photographed in March 2020
Recorded locationFreshford52.72582° N · 7.39621° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

achadhfield

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.

Recorded forms

  • Achadh Úr · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Freshford · English · main form

Place & story

Fourteen inhabitants in 1911

Freshford townland had fourteen inhabitants in 1911, nine male and five female, in four occupied houses. Its population had been eighteen in 1891 and fourteen in 1901. The return gives its area as 97 acres, one rood and twenty-one perches, within Freshford parish, electoral division and dispensary district, Crannagh barony and Kilkenny Poor Law Union. [2]

Where the census town stood

The separately tabulated Freshford Town had 446 inhabitants in 1911. Its 120 houses comprised 114 occupied and six empty buildings. A footnote locates that town on Freshford Lots and Moat townlands, keeping its population distinct from the fourteen people recorded for Freshford townland itself. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Kilkenny
Barony
Crannagh
Civil parish
Freshford
Coordinates
52.72582, -7.39621
Mapped area
0.39 km²
Logainm ID
1418847 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1901 census

No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Freshford. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Kilkenny, Table VII, printed pages 19–20 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by the Athlone Printing Works Company, 1912
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. Uppercourt demesne entrance near Freshford, County Kilkenny illustration: based on a Demesne Entrance by kevin higgins. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.