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Carlow County - Ireland Genealogical Projects (IGP TM) Nurney co. carlow |
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A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, By Samuel Lewis. 1837
Nurney, a parish, partly in the barony of Carlow, and
partly in that of Forth, but chiefly in the barony of Idrone
East, county of Carlow, and province of Leinster, 2 miles
(N. E.) from Leighlinbridge, on the road to Tullow;
containing 975 inhabitants, of which number, 284 are in the
village.
 This
parish comprises 2758 statute acres, as applotted under the
tithe act, and valued at £2215 per annum. There is no bog,
agriculture is in a good state. Here are granite quarries
for building, and limestone for burning; and the Barrow
navigation affords the means of conveying goods to
Waterford. The village, consisting of about 50 houses,
stands at the junction of several roads; it is a
constabulary police station, and has a patent for a fair on
May 6th, which is not held. The living is a rectory and
vicarage, in the diocese of Leighlin, forming the corps of
the pre-centorship thereof, in the patronage of the Bishop:
the tithes amount to £230. 15. 4½.  The
church is a small neat building of hewn stone, erected in
1788, by aid of a gift of £500 from the late Board of First
Fruits,; and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have recently
granted £217 for its repair: the steeple was thrown down by
lightning some years since. In the R. C. divisions the
parish forms part of the union or district of Dunleckney.
The parochial school, in which about 30 boys and 40 girls
are taught, is under the patronage of Col. Bruen, M. P., who
erected the school-house, at an expense of £400. From the
churchyard a noble view of the western part of the county is
procured, with the windings of the river Barrow: in it is
part of a rude stone cross, and without its boundary stands
a perfect cross, six feet high.The name Nurney suggests that there may have been a monastic site on the site in the 4th or 5th century. St. John's Church (Church of Ireland) which is a listed structure, which was built by the local landlord John Bruen in the 1780s along with a schoolhouse. Sourcr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurney,_County_Carlow
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