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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Danesfort
Danesfort (Irish: Dún Feart, meaning 'fort of the grave mound') is a civil parish, electoral division and rural townland in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Located approximately 6 km from Kilkenny City on the N10 (Waterford to Kilkenny road), the M9 motorway also passes through Danesfort townland.

The area has a primary school, Roman Catholic church (including graveyard), creche, community centre and a care home for the elderly. The local Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club is Danesfort GAA. A holy well, known as Lady's Well, is in Ballyda townland in Danesfort parish.

Location

Danesfort townland is in a civil parish and electoral division of the same name, in the historical barony of Shillelogher. For census purposes, parts of the electoral division of Danesfort were included within the census area of Bennettsbridge, a nearby town, in the 2006 census.

Danesfort is included within Kilkenny City for the purposes of Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) structures, and the local credit union is the St. Canice's Kilkenny City Credit Union.

The local Catholic church, St Michael's Church in Danesfort, is within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ossory.

See also

References

  1. ^ "CD158 - Kilkenny Population by Private Households, Occupied and Vacancy Rate". data.gov.ie. CSO. Retrieved 9 August 2024. Population [..] Townlands [..] Danesfort, Danesfort, Co. Kilkenny: 99
  2. ^ "Dún Feart / Danesfort". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  3. ^ "Clubs - Danesfort". kilkennygaa.ie. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  4. ^ "Danesfort Townland, Co. Kilkenny". townlands.ie. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  5. ^ "Table 5 - Population of Towns ordered by County and size, 2002 and 2006" (PDF). CSO. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 May 2011.
  6. ^ "Parishes - Danesfort". ossory.ie. Ossory Diocese. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
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