from Waterford Bridge to Ferrybank Catholic church was within the municipal boundary; the rest of the parish constituted the northern "liberties" of the city. The Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840 transferred the liberties of each city from the county of the city to the adjacent county-at-large. The application of this in regard to Kilculliheen was unclear, and the justices of the peace of County Kilkenny assumed it had been annexed to that county. When their error was discovered, an 1845 Act of Parliament was required to allow their judgments to stand. The 1846 Parliamentary Gazetteer and the censuses of 1841 to 1861 described Kilculliheen as part of the Waterford barony of Gaultier. The 1871 census lists it as a barony, with footnote: Kilculliheen did not appear as a barony in the Tables of previous censuses, it having formed a portion of Gaultiere barony. As, however, it has for some years past been described as a distinct barony in documents emanating from the office of the Privy Council and other Public Departments, it is so treated in these Tables. After the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, an order of the Local Government Board subdivided the poor law electoral division of Waterford into seven district electoral divisions (DEDs), one called Kilculliheen consisting of "that portion of the original electoral division not included within the municipal boundary of the borough of Waterford, and situate north of the River Suir". A subsequent order transferred Kilculliheen DED from the judicial county of the city of Waterford to the administrative county Kilkenny. In 1955, the county borough (now city) of Waterford was extended, thereby reclaiming some of the DED territory from Kilkenny. See also Barony (county division) Barony (Ireland) List of baronies of Ireland References Notes From : Footnotes Sources External links Kilculliheen Kilculliheen Civil parishes of County Kilkenny Civil parishes of County Waterford