placenamesNurney
An Urnaí
Estate accounts preserve named tenancies alongside the parish’s nineteenth-century ecclesiastical connections.
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
A lease in 1792
The National Library's Bruen collection lists a lease dated 20 August 1792 from Henry Bruen of Oakpark to Peter Johnstown of Nurney. It concerned 85 acres at Nurney, granted for three lives at a rent of £193 12s 3d. The surviving document is catalogued as MS 29,777/1. [2]
Rent rolls and arrears
A Bruen account volume covering November 1792 to May 1793 includes Nurney among the estate's holdings. The library catalogue identifies part of Nurney held at will by Peter Johnson and records separate columns for tenants, payments and observations about leases or arrears. Nearby denominations in the rental include Ballyryan, Orchard and Old Town. [3]
The parish living
In 1837 Samuel Lewis described Nurney's Church of Ireland rectory and vicarage as attached to the precentorship of Leighlin, with the bishop appointing its incumbent. Tithes amounted to just over £230. In the Roman Catholic organisation, Nurney belonged to the Dunleckney union or district. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Carlow
- Barony
- Idrone East
- Barony
- Carlow
- Barony
- Forth
- Coordinates
- 52.75127, -6.92062
- Mapped area
- 11.03 km²
- Logainm ID
- 340 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Nurney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Bruen of Oakpark Papers, Collection List 23, MS 29,777/1, page 8 · National Library of Ireland
- Henry Bruen in account with Philip Walters, November 1792–May 1793, MS 29,771(3) · National Library of Ireland
- Nurney, Idrone East, Carlow, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland,1837 · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.