KILNEDDY, or KILNEADY, a parish, in the
barony of KNOCKTOPHER, county of KILKENNY, and
province of LEINSTER, 4 miles (S. S. E.) from Knocktopher,
near the road from Kilkenny to Waterford;
containing 38 inhabitants. It is a rectory and vicarage,
in the diocese of Ossory, forming part of the union of
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Knocktopher. In the R. C. divisions it is part of the
union or district of Ballyhale. At Ballytarsney is a
chalybeate spring, from the sides of which stalactites of
iron ore are taken, and iron ore fit for smelting is said
to exist in the parish.