Nurney, County Kildare

For the village of the same name in County Carlow, see Nurney, County Carlow.

Nurney
Irish: An Urnaí
Village
Nurney is located in Ireland
Nurney
Nurney
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°05′42″N 6°56′52″W / 53.09494°N 6.94784°W / 53.09494; -6.94784
CountryIreland
ProvinceLeinster
CountyCounty Kildare
Elevation
71 m (233 ft)
Population
 (2016)[1]
456
Time zoneUTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid ReferenceN704056

Nurney (Irish: An Urnaí, meaning 'the oratory')[2] is a village, townland and civil parish in County Kildare, Ireland, on the Tully Stream.

Location

Nurney lies on the R415 regional road 8 km south of Kildare and is signposted from the M7 motorway at junction 13.

Transport

South Kildare Community Transport's Newbridge-Kildare-Athy bus route serves Nurney on Mondays to Fridays with two services each way a day. The bus also serves Kildare railway station, the nearest station to Nurney, enabling journeys to/from many parts of Ireland.[3]

Amenities

The village has a church, a pub, a school, a shop and two graveyards. A petrol station and a takeaway shop opened in the village in recent times.

Skerries Irish Figure Dancing Class has been teaching Irish Figure dancing for over 40 years and classes are held weekly in the local GAA hall.[citation needed]

Demographics

In 2006, Nurney's population was recorded at 354, an increase of 48% from 2002 owing to an influx of settlers from Dublin, which lies approximately 60 km away.[citation needed] By the time of the 2016 census, the population had increased to 456 people.[1]

Sport

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Nurney". Census 2016. CSO. April 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  2. ^ "An Urnaí/Nurney". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 May 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)