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About Nurney

Nurney, An Urnaí in Irish, is a village in County Carlow, 26 km north-east of Kilkenny. It stands on the L3044. The map gives it 396 buildings and 1 named street, with 3 places named on them in 17 kinds, and 80 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 20th largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.

Where
26 km north-east of Kilkenny, 79 km from Dublin
Position
52.7528° N, 6.9108° W, 144 m above sea level
Roads
L3044
Governed
Carlow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
396 buildings, 1 street, 3 named places in 17 kinds
Nurney, County Carlow, near to Nurney, Ballyrvan, The Harrow and Hooper's Cross Roads, Carlow, Ireland. St John's Church
Nurney, County Carlow, near to Nurney, Ballyrvan, The Harrow and Hooper's Cross Roads, Carlow, Ireland. St John's Church·sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Nurney, County Carlow
Nurney, County Carlow·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Carlow since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

86,22833,34261,96818412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 80 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L3044 running through Nurney.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Nurney?
In County Carlow, in the province of Leinster, 26 km north-east of Kilkenny and 79 km from Dublin, on the L3044.
How big is Nurney?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 396 buildings, 1 named street and 3 named places, which by building count makes it the 20th largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.
What is there to see in Nurney?
80 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Nurney Cross, Agha Church (in ruins) and Ballyloo Castle Ruins.
How do you get to Nurney?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the L3044.
Has County Carlow grown or shrunk?
The census counted 86,228 people in the county in 1841 and 61,968 in 2022.
396
buildings on the model
1
named streets
3
named places
17
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q2085818). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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