Nurney, County Kildare
Nurney
Irish: An Urnaí | |
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Village | |
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  Nurney Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 53°05′42″N 6°56′52″W / 53.09494°N 6.94784°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Kildare |
| Elevation | 71 m (233 ft) |
| Population | 456 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Irish Grid Reference | N704056 |
Nurney (Irish: An Urnaí, meaning "the oratory")[2] is a village, townland and civil parish in County Kildare, Ireland, on the Tully Stream.
Location[edit]
Nurney lies on the R415 regional road 8 km south of Kildare and is signposted from the M7 motorway at junction 13.
Transport[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
- Nurney GAA is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Nurney". Census 2016. CSO. April 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
- ^ "An Urnaí/Nurney". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 May 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
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