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Nurney

An Urnaí

Concrete walls and a later viewing gallery mark a village sporting landmark.

Recorded locationNurney53.09116° N · 6.94293° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

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
  • Nurney · English · main form

Place & story

The alley on the corner

Nurney’s handball alley carries a stone date plaque for 1935. Its concrete walls are highest at the eastern end, slope down along the sides and finish low at the western end. A metal viewing gallery was added to the west around 1980. The architectural inventory records a metal door and the alley’s position directly beside the road on a corner site. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Kildare
Civil parish
Nurney
Coordinates
53.09116, -6.94293
Mapped area
1.05 km²
Logainm ID
25233 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1926 census

22People recorded
8Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • Corcoran 5
  • Treacy 5
  • Byrne 4
  • Toole 2
  • Conway 1
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Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Nurney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Nurney handball alley, registration11902709, Kildare survey2002 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-10-23. How this page was prepared.