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The Mayor of Kilkenny (Irish: Cathaoirleach) is an honorific title used by the head of Kilkenny Borough Council. The Council has jurisdiction throughout its administrative area which is the city of Kilkenny in the Republic of Ireland. The office was established in the 16th century and had significant powers. The office was all but abolished under the Local Government Act 2001. All that remains of the office, per section 11 of the Act is a symbolic role: "Subject to this Act, royal charters and letters patent relating to local authorities shall continue to apply for ceremonial and related purposes in accordance with local civic tradition but shall otherwise cease to have effect.". The Act goes on to state the chairman of the Council must be styled the Cathaoirleach and that "Any reference in any other enactment to the lord mayor, mayor, chairman, deputy lord mayor, deputy mayor or vice-chairman or cognate words shall, where the context so requires, be read as a reference to the Cathaoirleach or Leas-Chathaoirleach or other title standing for the time being." (section 31 (3)).

History of the office

Kilkenny's first Council was elected in 1231 and since then Kilkenny has had a continuous record of municipal government. From the 13th century to the end of the 16th the chief magistrate was known as the Sovereign, and since then Mayor. The Cathaoirleach for the civic year 2012/2013 was Councillor Sean O' hArgain. John Coonan was elected Mayor in 2020, succeeding Martin Brett.

List of sovereigns

1282 Richard Palmer
1289 Richard de Lega
1293 Alan Donninge
1295 Alan Donninge
1296 John White
1300 Robert de Edesor
1301 William Outlaw, son of Alice Kyteler
1303 Robert de Edesor
1305 Alan Donninge
1307 John White
1310 William Outlaw
1311 Henry Outlaw
1312 Alan Donnynge
1314 Phillip Croker
1315 Nicholas Croker
1316-17 John Godyn
1318 John Enocke (Eynow)
1319 John Godyn
1320 John Enocke
1321 Thomas de Ley
1322 John Enocke
1323-24 William Donninge
1326-28 William Fitz Geoffrey
1329 John Folyn
1330 Thomas Shortall
1331-32 Bartholomew Folyn
1333 Thomas Oweyn
1334 Walter FitzHugh
1335-36 Gilbert Fort
1337-38 John Cross
1339 Nicholas Bristow
1340 John Alyn
1341-43 John Cross
1345 Nicholas Bristow
1346-47 John Cross
1348 Thomas Venn
1349-50 John Enocke
1351 William Folyn
1352 John Enocke
1353 James Oweyn
1356 William Lofe
1357 John Rennell
1360 John Whyte de Ely
1364 John Enocke
1366 David Archer
1367-68 William Tirrell
1369 Robert Dencourt
1370 William Bristowe
1371 Oliver Knaresborough
1372 Robert Flood
1373 Robert Dencourt
1374-75 Robert Talbot
1376-77 David Archer
1379-80 Oliver Knaresborough
1381 Patrick Catermas
1383 John Cadde
1384-85 Nicholas Ley
1386 Robert Talbot
1387 John Lumbard
1388 Richard Norton
1389 Robert Folyn
1390 John Dyer
1391 John Chamberlain
1392 Thomas Knaresborough
1393 Thomas Taylor
1394 Phillip Cadde
1395 John Daniell
1396 William Stone
1397 Nicholas White
1398 William Stone
1399 Richard Talbot
1400 Thomas Knaresborough
1401 Robert Dullard
1402 Thomas Talbot
1403 Thomas Rothe, son of John Rothe
1404 Richard Talbot
1405 Roger Bernard
1406 John Marshall
1407 John Croker
1408-10 Nicholas Stokes
1411 Robert Taine
1412 John Shortall/Thomas English, alias Mownister
1416 John Lumbard
1417 Thomas Chamberlain
1418 John Marshall
1419 Thomas White
1420 David Girdler, alias Browne
1421 Robert Folyn
1422 Nicholas White
1424 John Coke
1425 William Archer
1427 John Knaresborough
1428 Maurice Stafford
1429 John Marshall
1430 Thomas English alias Mownister
1431 Nicholas Sutton
1432 John Knaresborough
1433 John Marshall
1434 William Archer
1435 William White
1438 John Archer
1440 John Roth(e)
1431 Walter Sherlock
1432 John Knaresborough
1433 Robert Savage
1434-35 John Whiteside
1436 Elias Archer
1449 John Rothe
1450 Patrick Sentleger
1451 John Knaresborough
1452 John Ragget(t)
1457 John Gerrot
1460 Thomas Sherlock for Elias Archer who refused to serve
1464 William Archer
1465 John Rothe
1466 William Archer Fitz Elias (i.e. son of Elias Archer)
1467-68 Walter Archer
1471 Patrick Daniell
1473 John Rothe
1475 Thomas Sherlock served for John Folyng of Drogheda
1477 John Whiteside
1482-83 John Knaresborough
1486 John Sherlock
1487 Robert Leonard
1489 Nicholas Ragget
1490 John Mothell
1491-92 Denis Maldony
1493, 1494, 1496 Robert Shee (died 1500 in the Battle at Moyaliff, Co. Tipperary)
1498 Peter Archer
1499 John Archer
1500 Thomas Marshall
1501 John Savage
1502 Walter Sherlock
1503 Patrick Archer
1504 William Kyrdow
1505 Robert Rothe
1506 Richard Rothe
1507 Walter Courcy
1508 Patrick Archer
1509 Robert Rothe
1510 Robert Rothe
1511 Thomas Langton
1512 Walter Sherlock Fitz Thomas
1513 Thomas Mothell
1514 Robert Rothe
1515 David Savage
1516 Walter Courcy
1517 Geoffrey Rothe
1518 Patrick Archer
1519 Thomas Mothell
1520 Peter Archer
1521 Peter Archer
1522 Richard Shee, son of Robert (see 1493), married to Joan Archer of New Ross
1523 Robert Rothe
1524 Thomas Shee
1525 Richard Rothe
1526 Nicholas Hackett
1527 John Walsh FitzLawrence
1528 Geoffrey Rothe
1529 Peter Walsh
1530 Thomas Shee
1531 John Rothe
1532 Richard Shee
1533 Geoffrey Rothe as locum tenens for Oliver Sentleger Lord of Tullchanbrog
1534 Nicholas Hackett
1535 Thomas Langton
1536 Richard Shee
1537 Robert Rothe
1538 John Walsh
1539 John Rothe
1540 Nicholas Cowley
1541 David Rothe
1542 Walter Archer
1543 Robert Shee, MP, son of Richard Shee (see 1522) and Joan Archer, married to Margaret Rothe, father of Sir Richard Shee and Henry Shee (see 1610)
1544 Walter Archer
1545 Walter Lawless
1546 David Rothe
1547 Francis Droone
1548 William Shee
1549 John Langton
1550 David Rothe
1551 Nicholas Cowley
1552 Robert Shee
1553 William Shee
1554 Walter Mothell
1555 John Marshall
1556 Walter Mothell
1557 John Langton
1558 Nicholas Garvey
1566 William Archer
1572 Helias (Elias) Shee
1577 Walter Archer
1578 Edward Langton
1579 Peter Shee
1580 John Archer
1581 Robert Shee
1582 Thomas Raghton (Rafter?)
1583-84 Arthur Shee
1585 Richard Ragget
1586 Arthur Shee
1589 Thomas Raghton (Rafter?)
1590 Walter Archer
1591 Arthur Shee
1592 Richard Ragget
1593 John Archer
1594 Helias (Elias) Shee
1595 Henry Shee (his coat of arms can still be seen in St. Kieran St, Kilkenny)
1596 Geoffrey Rothe
1597 Thomas Archer
1598 Edward Langton
1599 Helias Shee
1600 Henry Shee
1601 Patrick Archer
1602 Luke Shee
1603 Martin Archer (his coat of arms with the inscription "Insignia Martini Archer, Kilkenny, 1582." can still be found on a house on High St, Kilkenny)
1604 Edward Rothe
1605 John Rothe Fitz Piers of Rothe House, great-great grandson of Sovereign John Rothe 1440
1606 Nicholas Langton
1607 Edward Shee
1608 Thomas Ley

List of mayors since 1609

1609 Thomas Ley (died 1629) until Michaelmas, then Robert Rothe
1610 Henry Shee, grandson of Richard (see 1522), married first to Frances Crisp and second to a lady White; built the house on High Street which is now the restaurant Paris Texas and still bears his and his wives' coat of arms
1611 Thomas Archer removed, then Patrick Archer, MP
1612 Edward Rothe
1613 John Rothe Fitzpiers of Rothe House, then Nicholas Langton (1562-1632)
1614 Edward Shee
1615 Luke Shee
1616 John Rothe Fitzpiers, then David Rothe
1617 Clement Raggett
1618 William Shee
1619 Clement Raggett
1620 Sir Cyprian Horsfall
1621 Walter Archer
1622 Walter Lawless
1623 Thomas Shee
1624 Walter Archer (died Jan. 1626), William Shee
1626 Michael Cowley
1627 Richard Rothe
1628 Henry Archer
1629 Peter Rothe (son of John Rothe Fitzpiers) of Rothe House (died 1654 in exile), MP, married to Letitia Lawless, daughter of Walter
1630 John Shea
1631 Marcus Shee, son of Sir Richard Shee
1632 William Shee
1633 Robert Shee, MP, son of Henry Shee and Dorothy Shee, great-grandson of Henry Shee (see 1610)
1634 Thomas Archer
1635 Richard Lawless, son of Walter Lawless
1636 James Cowley
1637 Nicholas Knaresborough, married to Rose Rothe
1638 George Shee
1639 Michael Archer Young
1640 George Shee
1641 Thomas Archer
1642 Patrick Murphy
1643 Walter Archer
1644 Peter Shee
1645 William Langton
1646 Jenkin Rothe
1647 Richard Shea FitzMarcus
1648 Robert Rothe
1649 James Archdekin
1650 Elias Shee
1651 Peter Rothe FitzEdward, MP died, replaced by ? Shee
1652 James Bjrogan (?)
1653 Elias Shee
1654-55 Daniel Axtell, military governor
1656 Abel Warren, MP
1657 Thomas Addams
1658 John Addams
1659 Thomas Evans
1660 John Joyner or Jaynor
1661 Thomas Evans
1662 Thomas Butler
1663 William Warden
1664-65 Peter Goodwin
1666-68 Thomas Evans
1669-70 Thomas Burrell
1671-72 William Connell
1673-75 Josias Haydock
1676-77 Francis Rowledge
1678 Joseph Cuffe
1679 Arthur Helsham died / Thomas Young
1680 John Baxter
1681 Samuel Phillips
1682 Bartholomew Connor (?)
1683 Thomas Butler
1684 Thomas Longueville
1685-86 Richard Connell, MP
1687-88 John Rothe (Catholic), MP
1689 John Archdekin
1690 July-91 John Baxter
1692-93 Joshua Helsham
1694-95 Ebenezer Warren, MP
1696 John Pape
1697 Isaac Mukins
1698 Thomas Phillips
1699 George Birch
1700 Abel Butler
1701 Josias Haydock
1702 John Blunden
1703 Patrick Connell
1704 William Earl of Inchiquin
1705 John Hamilton
1706 John Garnett
1707 Adam Haydock
1708-09 Stephen Haydock
1710 Robert Connell
1711 William Baxter
1712 Edward Evans
1713 Thomas Blunt
1714 William Baxter
1715 James Agar
1716 John Birch
1717 John Dessaroy
1718 John Cooksey
1719 John Blunden
1720 Enoch Collier
1721 John Cuffe
1722 Richard Phillips
1723 Thomas Sandford of Sandfordscourt
1724 Edward Warren
1725 Arthur Helsham
1726 Thomas Butler
1727 Thomas Barnes
1728-29 John Blunden (c. 1695 – 1752)
1730 Stephen Haydock / Edward Warren
1731 William Gore, MP
1732 Edward Evans
1733 Edward Warren, MP
1734 Henry Evans
1735 Richard Butler
1736 Algernon Warren
1737 George St. George of Kilrush
1738 Thomas Butler
1739 Arthur Helsham
1740 William Gore (1703–1748)
1741 Ebenezer Lodge
1742 Anthony Blunt
1743 Barry Colles
1744 Samuel Matthews
1745-46 Ambrose Evans
1747 Joseph Evans
1748 Joseph Blunt
1749 Ambrose Evans
1750 Ebenezer Lodge
1751 Ralph Gore
1752 Harvy Morres
1753 John Blunden (c.1718-1783), MP
1754 William Evans Morres, MP
1755 William Colles, father of Abraham Colles
1756 George Carpenter
1757 James Percival
1758 Thomas Butler
1759 Charles Gore
1760 Anthony Blunt
1761 Thomas Wilkinson
1762 Anthony Blunt
1763 John Blunt
1764 Francis Lodge
1765 Barry Colles
1766 Haydocke Evans Morres, MP
1767 Thomas Butler
1768 John Watters
1769 Christopher Hewetson
1770 Anthony Blunt the younger
1771 Otway Lord Desart
1772 Francis Lodge
1773 Ralph Gore
1774 Thomas Mossom
1775 John Watters
1776 Patrick Welch, MP
1777 Clayton Bayly
1778 John Earl of Wandesford
1779 Otway Lord Desart
1780 Thomas Butler
1781 Henry Geale
1782 Bibby Hartford
1783 Edward Evans
1784 Edmund Butler
1785 Patrick Welch
1786 Edmund Butler
1787 Patrick Welch the younger, MP
1788 James Wemys
1789 Henry Shearman
1790 Robert Edmonds
1791 Patrick Welch the elder
1792 Edmund Butler
1793 Robert Edmunds
1794 James Wemys
1795 Robert Edmonds
1796 William Wilkinson
1797 William Kingsmill
1798 Robert Edmonds
1799 William Pitt Blunden
1800 Robert Edmonds
1801 Sir John Blunden
1802 John Enery
1803 Samuel Matthews
1804 John Helsham
1805 Rev. Edward Herbert
1806 Walter, Earl of Ormonde
1807 The Hon. Hamilton Cuffe
1808 The Hon. James Butler
1809 John Otway Cuffe, 2nd Earl of Desart
1810 George Rothe
1811 James Wemys
1812 William Bayly
1813 Samuel Matthews
1814 The Hon. James Butler
1815 Rev. Nicholas Herbert
1816 The Hon. Charles Butler
1817 Samuel Madden
1818 John Kinchela
1819 William Hartford
1820 Nathaniel Alcock
1821 Henry Wemys
1822 Joseph Bradish
1823 Sir Jonah Wheeler Denny Cuffe
1824 Joseph Greene
1825 Charles Madden
1826 Christopher Humfrey / Joseph Bradish
1827 William Kingsmill / Charles Madden 1868 William O'Donnell
1828 Nathaniel Alcock
1829 William Oliver Wheeler
1830 Henry Gore
1831 William Robertson
1832 Thomas Cronyn
1833 John McCraith
1834 William Grace
1835 Parr Kingsmill
1836 Redmond Reade first Roman Catholic Mayor since 1690)
1837 Richard Sullivan
1838 Thomas Pack
1839 William Shanahan
1840 Lewis Chapelier Kinchela Sr.
1841 Lewis Chapelier MD
1842-43 James Burnham
1844 Edmond Smithwick
1845 Robert Cane (1807–1858)
1846 Joseph Hackett
1847 Henry Potter
1848 Thomas Hart
1849 Robert Cane
1850 Michael Banim
1851 Michael Hyland
1852 Daniel Cullen
1853 John Potter
1854 Michael Sullivan
1855 James M. Tidmarsh
1856 William Lanigan
1857 Daniel Smithwick
1858 Patrick Moran
1859 Matthew Rowan
1860 Edmund Murphy
1861 Thomas Power
1862-63 Alexander Colles
1864-65 Edmond Smithwick
1866 John Feehan
1867 John Buggy
1868 William O'Donnell
1869 William Healy
1870 James W. Sullivan
1871 William Hayden
1872-73 William Kenealy
1874 Patrick Murphy
1875 Simon Morris
1876 Peter McDermott
1877 Arthur M. Mahon
1878 Daniel McCarthy
1879 James S. Loughlin
1880 Andrew Dowling
1881 Patrick Maher
1882 Simon Morris
1883 John Hogan
1884 John E. Smithwick, MP (1844-1913)
1885 William O'Donnell
1886 James Walsh
1887-88 Patrick M. Egan, father of the playwright Michael Egan
1889 John Coyle
1890 David Fenton
1891 Michael Kennedy
1892 Patrick Rowan
1893 Cornelius Quinn
1894-95 Patrick J. Morrissey
1896 Major O'Leary
1897 Thomas Cantwell
1898 John A. Healy
1899 Patrick J. O'Keeffe
1900-1901 Joseph Purcell
1902-03 Patrick Hoyne
1904-05 Edward O'Shea
1906 Edward McSweeney
1907-08 Captain Otway Cuffe
1909-10 Michael J. Potter
1911 Thomas Cantwell
1912-13 Joseph Purcell
1914-16 John Magennis
1917-18 John Slater
1919-24 Peter DeLoughrey
1925-27 James Reade
1926 James Reade
1927 James Reade
1928 John Magennis
1929-1930 John G. Duggan
1931 T.J.D. O'Hanrahan
1932-34 Michael McSweeney
1935-36 Patrick Bryan
1937-38 John Magennis
1939-42 Raymond Crotty
1943-44 Commissioner
1945-46 Patrick J. Crotty
1947 James P. Pattison
1948 Thomas J. DeLoughrey
1949 James Monahan
1950-51 John Leahy
1952-55 Patrick Gleeson
1956 John J. Holohan
1957-58 Michael J. McGuinness
1959 John J. Holohan
1960 Seamus Monahan
1961 John J. Holohan
1962 Patrick Kinchella
1963-64 Tomás Ó Dubhshláine
1965-66 Michael J. McGuinness
1967 Thomas Martin
1968 John J. Holohan
1969-70 Margaret Tynan (First woman elected Mayor)
1970 Margaret Tynan
1971 Kieran Crotty
1972 Kieran Crotty
1973 Michael J. McGuinness
1974 Thomas Martin
1975 John J. Holohan
1976 Seamus Pattison
1977 Margaret Tynan
1978 Luke Boyle
1979 Thomas Martin
1980 Kieran Crotty
1981 Luke Boyle
1982 John J. Holohan
1983 Thomas Crotty
1984 Michael J. McGuinness
1985-88 Margaret Tynan
1989-90 Kieran Crotty
1991 Thomas Crotty
1992 Seamus Pattison
1993 Michael J. McGuinness
1994 Michael Lanigan
1995 Kieran Crotty
1996 John J. McGuinness, son of Michael J. McGuinness
1997 Margaret Tynan
1998 Tomás Ó Dublshláine / John Bolger
1999 Tony Patterson
2000 Paul Cuddihy
2001 Joe Cody
2002 Betty Manning
2003 Pat Crotty
2004 Martin Brett
2005 Marie Fitzpatrick
2006 Martin Brett
2007 Marie Fitzpatrick
2008 Pat Crotty
2009 Malcolm Noonan (Green Party)
2010 Martin Brett
2011 David FitzGerald
2012 Sean O' hArgain
2013 Martin Brett
2014 Andrew McGuinness, son of John J. McGuinness
2015 Joe Malone
2016 Patrick O'Neill (Fine Gael)
2017 Michael Doyle (Fine Gael)
2018 Peter "Chap" Cleere (Fine Fáil)
2019 Martin Brett
2020 John Coonan
2021 Andrew McGuinness
2022 David FitzGerald
2023 Joe Malone
2024 Andrew McGuiness

Notes

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"New Mayor of Kilkenny elected this morning". Kilkenny People. Archived from the original on 30 June 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
Patterson, Tony (2001). "Sovereigns of the city of Kilkenny, 1282-1608". Old Kilkenny Review: 29ff.
Murphy, Claire (1954). "The Ten Civic Families of Kilkenny" (PDF). Old Kilkenny Review: 15. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
Murphy, Claire (1954). "The Ten Civic Families of Kilkenny". Old Kilkenny Review: 17.
Murphy, Claire (1954). "The Ten Civic Families of Kilkenny". Old Kilkenny Review: 17.
Murphy, Claire (1954). "The Ten Civic Families of Kilkenny". Old Kilkenny Review: 17.
Murphy, Claire (1954). "The Ten Civic Families of Kilkenny". Old Kilkenny Review: 17.
Murphy, Claire (1954). "The Ten Civic Families of Kilkenny" (PDF). Old Kilkenny Review: 4.
Patterson, Tony (2002). "Mayors of the city of Kilkenny, 1609-2002". Old Kilkenny Review: 93ff.
Murphy (1954). "The Ten Civic Families of Kilkenny". Old Kilkenny Review: 12.
Murphy, Claire (1954). "The Ten Civic Families of Kilkenny". Old Kilkenny Review: 17.
Murphy, Claire (1954). "The Ten Civic Families of Kilkenny". Old Kilkenny Review: 17.
Murphy (1954). "The Ten Civic Families of Kilkenny". Old Kilkenny Review: 8–10.
Murphy, Claire (1954). "The Ten Civic Families of Kilkenny" (PDF). Old Kilkenny Review: 16.
Murphy, Claire (1954). "The Ten Civic Families of Kilkenny" (PDF). Old Kilkenny Review: 16.
Murphy, Claire (1954). "The Ten Civic Families of Kilkenny". Old Kilkenny Review: 17.
Murphy (1954). "The Ten Civic Families of Kilkenny". Old Kilkenny Review: 13.
Murphy (1954). "The Ten Civic Families of Kilkenny". Old Kilkenny Review: 12.
"The Sovereigns and Mayors of Kilkenny 1282-2003". kilkennycity.ie. Archived from the original on 3 December 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
"Municipal District of Kilkenny City Meetings 2016". Kilkenny County Council. Archived from the original on 9 September 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
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"Municipal District of Kilkenny City Meetings 2018". Kilkenny County Council. Archived from the original on 2 June 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
"The Mayor of Kilkenny makes the case for an exciting new city walking trail". kilkennypeople.ie. Retrieved 22 July 2024.

External links

List of Sovereigns and Mayors of Kilkenny Kilkenny Borough Council website

References

Patterson, Tony (2002), "Mayors of the city of Kilkenny, 1609-2002", Old Kilkenny Review, archived from the original on 17 February 2013
McNeill, Charles (1931), Liber Primus Kilkenniensis
Liber Primus Kilkenniensis, translated by Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven, Kilkenny 1961
MS 2513 in the National Library. (Alderman Connells Book)
Manuscripts 105 and 106, Gilbert Collection in the Dublin City Archives. (Rothes Register)
Genealogical Memoirs of the Members of Parliament for the County And City of Kilkenny - George Dames Burtchaell, Dublin 1888
Rothes Register of the Antiquities and Statutes of the Town of Kilkenny, Appendix to the second report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission. p. 257, article by J.T. Gilbert

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