placenamesNurney
An Urnaí
A nineteenth-century church and presbytery mark different parts of Nurney’s ecclesiastical history.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- An Urnaí · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Nurney · English · main form
Place & story
The union formed in 1809
Nurney's Church of Ireland rectory and vicarage were united with Kildangan and Walterstown in 1809. Samuel Lewis records that the three parishes together formed the prebend of Nurney, under the bishop's patronage. His 1837 account gives the union's combined tithe income as just under £199. [2]
Nurney Demesne church
The architectural inventory dates the Church of Ireland building in Nurney Demesne to 1837–41. A tall western entrance tower, topped with battlements and slender pinnacles, rises between lower side bays. Lancet windows retain diamond-patterned leaded glazing. Its grounds include a graveyard and a gateway with simple stone piers and surviving early iron gates. [3]
The presbytery
The Catholic presbytery, built around 1870, stands separately from the village church within its own grounds. Its projecting gabled wing and angled bay windows give the two-storey house an irregular outline. Tudor-style timber decoration appears on the gables. Later alterations replaced the windows, while the architectural survey records the surviving slate roof. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Offaly West
- Coordinates
- 53.27100, -6.96983
- Mapped area
- 7.29 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1214 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Nurney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Nurney, West Ophaly, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland,1837 · Samuel Lewis
- Nurney Church, NIAH11902711 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- The Presbytery, NIAH11902708 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-02-28. How this page was prepared.