High Sheriff of County Kilkenny
The High Sheriff of County Kilkenny was the British Crown's judicial representative in County Kilkenny , Ireland from the 16th century until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Free State and replaced by the office of Kilkenny County Sheriff. The sheriff had judicial, electoral, ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs. In 1908, an Order in Council made the Lord-Lieutenant the Sovereign's prime representative in a county and reduced the High Sheriff's precedence. However, the sheriff retained his responsibilities for the preservation of law and order in the county. The usual procedure for appointing the sheriff from 1660 onwards was that three persons were nominated at the beginning of each year from the county and the Lord Lieutenant then appointed his choice as High Sheriff for the remainder of the year. Often the other nominees were appointed as under-sheriffs. Sometimes a sheriff did not fulfil his entire term through death or other event and another sheriff was then appointed for the remainder of the year. The dates given hereunder are the dates of appointment. All addresses are in County Kilkenny unless stated otherwise.
High Sheriffs of County Kilkenny
1263: Geoffrey Forrestal
1302: William le Kyteler
1327: Fulk de la Freyne
1346: Roger de la Freyne
1382: John Sweetman
1385: Fulk de la Freyne, the younger
1388: Gilbert Blancheville
1390: John Sweetman, second term
1391: John Sweetman, third term
1398: John FitzRichard Blancheville
1422: Robert Shorthalls
1422: Anselm Grace
1447–1448: David Blanchewille
1450: David Blanchewille
1489: Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond
1507: Walter Cowley
1536: Rowland Fitzgerald (alias Barron), Baron of Burnchurch
1543: James Eweetman
1564: William Sweetman
1579: Richard Fitzgerald, Baron of Burnchurch
1579–1586: Walter Walsh of Castlehale
1588: Sir Richard Shee
1640: Edward Butler, 1st Viscount Galmoye
1654: John Ponsonby
1665: Edward Evans
1669: Tobias Cramer of Ballyfoyle[ 1]
1678: Henry Webb of Ballinrobe[ 1]
1683: Balthazer Cramer[ 1]
1694: Ebenezer Warren of Lodge[ 1]
1693: George Reade
18th century
19th century
1801: Sir Nicholas Loftus, 2nd Baronet of Mount Loftus[ 13]
1802: Hon. Charles Harward Butler of Castlecomer [ 14]
1804: George Roth[ 15]
1805: Sir John Blunden, 2nd Baronet
1806: John Power[ 15]
1807: Thomas Kavanagh [ 15]
1808: Joseph Greene of Low Grange and Lake View[ 15]
1809: Ralph Gore[ 15]
1810: William (Nixon) Izod of Chapel Izod[ 16]
1811: Hon. Pierce Butler[ 17]
1812: Somerset Richard Butler, 3rd Earl of Carrick
1813: Sir John Blunden, 2nd Baronet
1814: William Morris[ 17]
1815: Henry Wemys of Danesfort[ 18]
1816: Nicholas Aylward[ 17]
1817: Thomas Neville[ 17]
1818: John Flood[ 17]
1819: Michael Cox of Castletown[ 17]
1820: Sir Joshua Coghill Coghill[ 17]
1821: William Waring[ 17]
1822: Robert Flood[ 15]
1823: William Frederick Fownes Tighe of Woodstock[ 15] [ 1]
1823: William Greene of Lota, Co. Cork[ 1]
1824: William Ponsonby of Bayswell[ 19]
1825: Clayton Bayly, of Norelands[ 20]
1827: John Fowler jnr, of Kilfane Thomastown[ 21]
1831: John Baker of Kilcoran
1833: John Hawtrey Jones, of Mullinabro, Waterford[ 22]
1834: Henry Flower, 5th Viscount Ashbrook
1836: Harvey Pratt (de Montmorency)
1836: Peter Connellan of Coolmore, Thomastown[ 23]
1837: James Kearney Aylward of Shankhil Castle, Gore's Bridge
1838: John Butler Wandersforde
1839: Theophilus John St George, 3rd Baronet of Woodsgift, Freshford[ 23]
1841: John Power of Sion[ 23]
1842: Robert Neville of Marymount.[ 24]
1843: Sir John Blunden, 3rd Baronet[ 25]
1844: Robert Tyndall of Oaklands.[ 1]
1845: Charles Hely, of Foulks Court.[ 26]
1846: George Bryan of Jenkinstown .[ 27]
1847: John Blunden, 3rd Baronet .
1848: William Villiers-Stuart of Castletown, Carrick-on-Suir .[ 28]
1849: William Lloyd Flood of Farmley Castle, Callan .[ 29]
1850: John De Montemorency of Castle Morde, Knocktopher .[ 30]
1851:
1854: Purefoy Poe of Harley Park.[ 1]
1855: James Charles Kearney of Blanchville.[ 6]
1856: Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh , The MacMorrough of Borris[ 1]
1858: Howard St George of Kilrush, Freshford [ 31]
1860: John William Smithwick [ 32]
1861: Edward Lewis Waren of Lodge.[ 1]
1862: Henry William Meredyth.[ 33]
1863: Michael Richard Cahill.
1863: Sir Charles Frederick Denny Wheeler-Cuffe .[ 33]
1866: Sir James Langrishe, 4th Baronet .[ 4]
1869: Arthur Poe of Harley Park.[ 1]
1870: Michael Sullivan of Lacken Hall.[ 34]
1872: Harvey John de Monmorency.
1873: John Murphy Loftus of Mount Loftus .[ 6]
1879: Charles Butler-Clarke-Southwell-Wandesforde of Castlecomer and Kirklington.[ 1]
1880:
1883: Lt. Col. Paul Helsham Hunt.
1884: William Pitt Blunden.[ 35]
1885: William Henry Izod of Chapel Izod House.[ 16]
1886: Hector James Charles Toler-Aylward of Shankhill Castle.[ 16]
1887: Henry John Richard Villiers-Stuart of Castletown and Castlane.[ 1]
1888: Henry Bayly Meredyth , lately Sir Henry Bayly Meredyth, 5th Baronet[ 33]
1889: Raymond de la Poer of Kilcronagh.
1890: James Hercules Fitzwalter Henry Connellan of Coolmore.[ 1]
1891: Sir Hercules Robert Langrishe of Knocktopher Abbey.[ 36]
1892: Godwin Butler Meade Swifte of Swiftesheath and Lionsden.[ 1]
1893: Somerset James Butler of Kilmurry .[ 1]
1894: Richard Henry Prior–Wandesforde of Castlecomer .[ 1]
1895: Edward Kenrick Bunbury Tighe, of Woodstock, Inistioge .[ 37]
20th century
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