placenamesNurney
An Urnaí
Military remembrance and nineteenth-century recording add documentary layers to Nurney’s surviving religious monuments.
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
Henry Bruen’s burial
A Carloviana account of the Carlow militia records Colonel Henry Bruen’s death in Dublin in December 1795. His remains were brought to Oak Park and then to Nurney for burial. The article also preserves a contemporary broadside describing military honours performed by his regiment, then stationed in Waterford. [2]
A cross recorded on paper
The National Library holds a pen-and-ink sheet pairing a cross at Nurney with another at Old Leighlin. William Frazer copied the drawings from George Victor Du Noyer’s work in the Kilkenny Archaeological Society collection. The Nurney title includes the year 1845, although the library leaves the copy itself undated. [3]
A monument in state ownership
The National Monuments Service’s state-care register identifies Nurney’s cross as National Monument 352, under state ownership, with the archaeological reference CW012-048003. That entry singles out the cross itself; it does not place the surrounding churchyard or every neighbouring stone in the same ownership category. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Carlow
- Barony
- Idrone East
- Civil parish
- Agha
- Civil parish
- Nurney
- Coordinates
- 52.75133, -6.91116
- Mapped area
- 1.97 km²
- Logainm ID
- 3424 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Nurney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Carloviana, number 9, 1960: account of the Carlow militia and Henry Bruen’s burial · Carlow Historical and Archaeological Society
- Cross at Nurney, 1845, County Carlow; cross at Old Leighlin, PD 1975 TX 10 (92) · National Library of Ireland
- National Monuments in State Care: Carlow, register dated 20 February 2009 · National Monuments Service
- 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 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.