The Custos Rotulorum of County Kilkenny was the highest civil officer in County Kilkenny.

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• 1758–59 William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough^[1]
• ?–1820 Walter Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde^[2]

For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Kilkenny