Kilfane

Kilfane
Cill Pháin
Townland
Kilfane Church
Kilfane Church
Kilfane is located in Ireland
Kilfane
Kilfane
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°33′25″N 7°08′34″W / 52.5568282°N 7.1428696°W / 52.5568282; -7.1428696
CountryIreland
ProvinceLeinster
CountyCounty Kilkenny
baronyGowran
Civil parishKilfane
Government
 • TypeCounty Council
 • BodyKilkenny County Council
Time zoneUTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-1 (IST / WEST)
Irish Grid ReferenceS 59 45

Kilfane (Irish: Cill Pháin) is a combination of two townlands located outside of Thomastown in County Kilkenny, Ireland.[1] It is made up of the townlands of Kilfane East and West with a total area of 75 acres (0.30 km2).[2][3][4] Located in the barony of Gowran, Kilfane gives its name to the wider civil parish which contains 16 townlands. It is in the Roman Catholic parish of Tullaherin.

This is also the site of the 13th-century Kilfane Church, now in ruins, which has an adjoining castellated presbytery or stone house. The site has traces of original consecration crosses, ogee headed doorways, remains of an altar, sedilia and book rest. Inside the ruined church, on the North wall, is an effigy of a Norman knight in full armour. It is referred to as Cantwell Fada and this effigy is the tallest of its kind in Britain or Ireland.[5]

Kilfane House was the seat of the Power family who were responsible for the creation of Kilfane Glen and Waterfall which is now a tourist attraction containing a romantic era (Romanticism) garden and waterfall [6]

There is also a Gaelic handball alley constructed in Kilfane quarry in the 1920s [7]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference logainmKilfane was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference logainmKilfaneEast was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference logainmKilfaneWest was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Census (1861). General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns, Parishes, and Baronies of Ireland: Based on the Census of Ireland for the Year 1851. Genealogical Publishing Com. pp. 451–452. ISBN 9780806310527.
  5. ^ In the Shadow of the Steeple - No.2 (published 1990) Pg 51
  6. ^ "Kilfane Glen and Waterfall".
  7. ^ In the Shadow of the Steeple - No.1 (out of print) Pg 13