Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - unclassified
Walterstown (nurney Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Walterstown (nurney Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Nunnery
- Latest-edition OS map
- Nunnery (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.09758, -6.94914
- SMR number
- KD027-025----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the gentle N-slope of a shallow E-W valley through a small river flows W. Modern housing has been constructed immediately to the W and NW. In 1837, according to O’Conor’s Ordnance Survey Letter (Herity 2002, 146 (159)), ‘… in Nurney village is pointed out a spot, where, it is said, there was formerly a nunnery. No remains are now observable; but a very small portion of the site, where some of the walls occupied, is said not to have been dug up, or tilled.’ The nunnery is not mentioned by Gwynn and Hadcock (1970). In 1967, burials (KD027-025001-) were uncovered in the vicinity. No surface traces of the nunnery were visible in 1986 (SMR file). In 1987, archaeological trial-trenching (Excavation Licence no. 97E0142) was undertaken in advance of a private development immediately S of the presumed location of the nunnery. No structures, deposits or finds of archaeological interest were uncovered. (http://www.excavations.ie/Pages/Details.php?Year=&County=Kildare&id=1915 Accessed 07-09-2012)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 October 2012
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.