Inistioge
| Inistioge Irish: Inis Tíog | |
| County Kilkenny | |
|---|---|
 The bridge in Inistioge | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | S634379 |
| Location: | 52°29’22"N, 7°4’0"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 285 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Callan – Thomastown |
| Dáil constituency: |
Carlow–Kilkenny |
| Website: | www.inistioge.ie |
Inistioge is a small, beautiful village in County Kilkenny, on the River Nore, fifteen miles south-east of Kilkenny. It also gives its name to a townland.
Historically, the village's name has been spelt as Ennistioge, Ennisteage, and in other ways. The name is from the Gaelic Inis Tíog,[1] meaning 'Tiog's Island'.
Inistioge is entered across the River Nore on a 10-arch stone bridge. The village has a tree-lined square and a number of 18th and 19th century homes along the river. Inistioge and its village green have been used as a filming location for a number of films. Inistioge developed significantly during the 18th and 19th centuries as a part of the Tighe families' Woodstock Estate.[2]
History
The earliest recorded reference to Inistioge refers to a battle between the kingdom of Osraighi and an army of Norsemen, recorded as taking place in the year AD 962 in the Annals of the Four Masters.[3]
Due to its location at the lowest point of the River Nore's crossing and the fact that the Osraige fought Olaf Cuaran, King of Dublin, in Inistioge in 964, it is possible that Inistioge was first inhabited by Norsemen.[4]
Thomas FitzAnthony received the land grant in 1169, and in 1206 he founded the Augustinian Priory. The priors expanded the community, but Inistioge suffered once the monasteries were dissolved in 1540. In 1566, Sir Edmond Butler was given ownership of the priory's possessions.[4]
King James I created weekly markets on Fridays and an annual fair on 13 December after Inistioge was constituted as a town in 1608. The Cromwellians attacked the town in 1649 and eventually took it over.[4]
The 18th and 19th centuries brought new development as the core square of the village became a planned estate village by the Tighe family of the Woodstock Estate.[5]
The parliamentary borough of Inistioge sent two MPs to Irish House of Commons until its abolition in 1801. It was not enfranchised in the United Kingdom House of Commons.[6][7]
Woodstock Estate
Inistioge's development was connected with that of the Woodstock Estate, which was constructed by Francis Bindon in the late 1740s for the Fownes family. Prior to the Land Acts, the holdings that made up the Woodstock Estate totalled 21,763 statute acres spread over six counties. Despite being far from the town, the house's significance in the growth of the community is attested to by the primary entrance to Woodstock, the river gate, the lower avenue and lodge, and the almshouses on the square. By the end of the 19th century, there was a concentration of buildings with a large number of two and three storey structures due to the interaction of the steep hill and the earlier mediæval walled village design.[4] In the centre of the village square there is a fountain which Lady Louisa Tighe (1803-1900), who spent seventy-five years at Woodstock, erected in memory of her late husband. The base of a cross, erected in 1621 to the memory of Baron David Fitzgerald and his wife, is nearby. The cross itself went missing and is said to have been deliberately destroyed by the Yeoman in 1798. The fountain still stands today, and it is inscribed “Erected by Louisa M. Tighe in memory of her beloved husband A.D. 1879”.[8]
On film
Inistioge, and its village green, has been the scene for a number of films, including Circle of Friends, The Secret Scripture and Widows' Peak.[9] Segments of the Hallmark film Love's Portrait, released in September 2022, were filmed in Inistioge.[10]
Sport
- Gaelic sports: Rower–Inistioge GAA
Outside links
- Inistioge - Jewel of the South East
- Rootsweb.ancestry.com - The Ten Arch Stone Bridge Entrance to Inistioge, County Kilkenny, Ireland: A Town Situated on the Banks of the River Nore
References
- ↑ Inis Tíog / Inistioge: Placenames Database of Ireland
- ↑ Hayes, Aisling (2018-10-10). "Beautiful film village of Inistioge" (in en-US). https://visitkilkenny.ie/beautiful-film-village-of-inistioge/.
- ↑ "Part 6 of Annals of the Four Masters". UCC. http://www.ucc.ie/celt/online/T100005B/text006.html.
- ↑ Jump up to: 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "The History of the Prehistoric Killkenny village of Inistioge" (in en-GB). https://inistioge.ie/about/history-of-inistioge/.
- ↑ Darley, Gillian (1975). Villages of vision. London: Architectural Press. pp. 148. ISBN 0-85139-705-0. OCLC 1921555. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1921555.
- ↑ Goodrich, Samuel Griswold (1832). A New Universal Pocket Gazetteer. W. Hyde. p. 446. https://books.google.com/books?id=YdIKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA446.
- ↑ Carrigan, William (1981). The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory. Roberts Books. p. 104.
- ↑ J., Whyte, Thomas (2007). The story of Woodstock in Inistioge : the fascinating history of a great Kilkenny estate and the restoration of its magnificent gardens : an account inspired by Thomas Whyte of Cappagh (1888-1961) and incorporating his original material and research. Cappagh Press. ISBN 978-0-9556029-0-0. OCLC 180469446. http://worldcat.org/oclc/180469446.
- ↑ "This little Kilkenny village has been utterly transformed into a Hollywood film set". Dailyedge.ie. 2 February 2015. http://www.dailyedge.ie/the-secret-scripture-inistioge-kilkenny-1916423-Feb2015/.
- ↑ Handore, Pratik. "Where Was Hallmark's Love's Portrait Filmed? Who is in the Cast?". https://thecinemaholic.com/where-was-hallmarks-loves-portrait-filmed-who-is-in-the-cast/.
- Hughes, J.J. (1948). "Inistioge". Old Kilkenny Review (Kilkenny): 42–47. http://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/OKR1948-42-JJ-Hughes-Inistioge.pdf.
- Birthistle, Dorcas (1969). "Inistioge". Old Kilkenny Review (Kilkenny): 31–47.
- Coyle, Tom (1969). "Inistioge District". Old Kilkenny Review (Kilkenny): 17–30.
- Manning, Conleth (1976). "The Inistioge Priory Cloister Arcade". Old Kilkenny Review (Kilkenny): 192–199.
- Dyer, John S (1998). "The almshouse at Inistioge". Old Kilkenny Review (Kilkenny): 43–47.