placenamesNurney
An Urnaí
Garryhundon combines a late nineteenth-century house with older outbuildings and a separately recorded demesne landscape.
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
Buildings of different dates
The architectural inventory dates Garryhundon House to about 1880, with detached outbuildings behind it from around 1825. The later house has two storeys and a half-dormer attic on an L-shaped plan. Its pedimented Doric entrance and window surrounds adopt an eighteenth-century style despite the building’s later date. [2]
The demesne record
The garden survey identifies Garryhundon on successive Ordnance Survey editions. It records a walled garden, parkland, woodland and artificial water features, while noting substantial disturbance apparently caused by excavation, possibly for sand or gravel. That observation is tentative: it records the survey’s interpretation rather than a confirmed account of the extraction work. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Nurney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Garryhundon House, NIAH 10301231 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Garryhundon House, garden inventory 3866 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.