The High Sheriff of County Kilkenny was the British Crown’s judicial representative in County Kilkenny

County Kilkenny

County Kilkenny is a county in Ireland. It is part of the South-East Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the city of Kilkenny. The territory of the county was the core part of the ancient Irish Kingdom of Osraige which in turn was the core of the Diocese of...

, 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

• 1327: Fulk de la Freyne
• 1346: Roger de la Freyne
• 1382: John Sweetman
• 1388: Gilbert Blancheville
• 1398: John FitzRichard Blancheville
• 1447-1448: David Blanchewille
• 1450: David Blanchewille
• 1489: Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond
• 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
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• 1654: John Ponsonby
• 1683: Balthazer Cramer
• 1694: Ebenezer Warren
• 1693: George Reade
• 1702: James Agar
• 1720: Edward Warren
• 1721: Toby Foley Caulfeild
• 1730: William Gore of Barrowmount
• 1731: William Flower, 1st Baron Castle Durrow
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• 1732: James Bryan
• 1740: Robert Langrishe
• 1741: Sir William Evans Morres, 1st Baronet
• 1742: Nicholas Aylward
• 1744: Edmond Butler
• 1753: Folliott Warren
• 1755: Sir William Fownes, 2nd Baronet
• 1777: William Power Keating Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty
• 1782: James Kearney of Kearneyville
• 1787: Edward Butler
• 1797: Jonah Wheeler-Denny-Cuffe, later Sir Jonah Wheeler-Denny-Cuffe, 1st Baronet, of Leyrath
• 1801: Sir Nicholas Loptus, 2nd Baronet
• 1802: Hon. Charles Harward Butler of Castle Comer
• 1805: John Blunden, 2nd Baronet
• 1812: Somerset Richard Butler, 3rd Earl of Carrick
• 1813: John Blunden, 2nd Baronet
• 1823: William Greene
• 1824: William Ponsonby, of Bayswell
• 1825: Clayton Bayly, of Norelands
• 1827: John Fowler jnr, of Kilfane Thomastown
• 1831: John Baker of Kilcoran
• 1834: John Hawtrey Jones, of Mullinabro, Waterford
• 1834: Henry Flower, 5th Viscount Ashbrook
• 1836: Harvey Pratt (de Montmorency)
• 1836: Peter Connellan of Coolmore, Thomastown
• 1837: James Kearney Aylward of Shankhil Castle, Gore's Bridge
• 1839: Theophilus John St George, 3rd Baronet of Woodsgift, Freshford
• 1841: John Power of Sion
• 1843: Sir John Blunden, 3rd Baronet
• 1845: Charles Hely, of Foulks Court
• 1846: George Bryan of Jenkinstown
• 1847: John Blunden, 3rd Baronet
• 1849: William Lloyd Flood, of Farmley Castle, Callan
• 1850: John De Montemorency of Castle Morde, Knocktopher.
• 1856: Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh
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• 1860: John William Smithwick
• 1862: Henry William Meredyth
• 1863: Michael Richard Cahill
• 1863: Sir Charles Frederick Denny Wheeler-Cuffe
• 1866: Edmond Smithwick
• 1866: Sir James Langrishe, 4th Baronet
• 1870: John Francis Smithwick
• 1872: Harvey John de Monmorency
• 1873: Daniel Smithwick
• 18nn: Charles Butler-Clarke-Southwell-Wandesforde
• 1883: Lt. Col. Paul Helsham Hunt
• 1884: William Pitt Blunden
• 1884: Walter MacMorrough Kavanagh, The MacMorrough
• 1888: Henry Bayly Meredyth, lately Sir Henry Bayly Meredyth, 5th Baronet
• 1889: Raymond de la Poer of Kilcronagh
• 1903: Charles James Butler-Kearney
• 1904: William Blunden, 4th Baronet
• 1911: Walter Charles Lindsay
• 1914: Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
• 1921: John Pratt Montmorency