About Nurney
Nurney, An Urnaí in Irish, is a village in County Kildare, 54 km north of Kilkenny. The map gives it 645 buildings and 8 named streets, with 7 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 78 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 32th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
- Where
- 54 km north of Kilkenny, 54 km from Dublin
- Position
- 53.0961° N, 6.9482° W, 71 m above sea level
- Governed
- Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
- On the model
- 645 buildings, 8 streets, 7 named places in 18 kinds
Nurney in order
5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the thirteenth century to 2016. That is not a history of Nurney, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.
- the thirteenth centuryWoodstock CastleRuins · 11 km from the centre
- the thirteenth centuryMoat of ArdscullRingforts and sites · 8.2 km from the centre
- the sixteenth centuryWhite CastleCastles · 12 km from the centre
- 1944Stephen Cullinane (Macra na Feirme)Monuments · 12 km from the centre
- 2016Ernest ShackletonMonuments · 12 km from the centre
County Kildare 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.
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.
- Pigeon House Ruin130 mRuins
- Nurney Playground150 mPlaygrounds
- Susan's Fort2.6 kmRingforts and sites
- Fuaran Well2.7 kmHoly wells
- Brookfield Wood2.9 kmWoods
- Church (ruins)3.0 kmRuins
- Saint Brigid5.9 kmMonuments
- St. Bridget's Well6.1 kmHoly wells
- Church ruins6.2 kmRuins
- Black Abbey6.2 kmHistoric churches
- 6.2 km
- Horse Museum6.2 kmMuseums
Getting around
The map gives no numbered road inside Nurney; the roads it does record are local.
1 line calls at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.
The map records no school inside the settlement.
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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 Q4328773). 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.