Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Nurney (nurney Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Nurney (nurney Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Nurney castle on Site of castle
- Coordinates
- 53.09671, -6.94502
- SMR number
- KD027-028----
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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 E-face of a low pasture ridge, skirted E-N-NW by a small W-flowing stream. The ruins of a second castle (KD027-026----) lie c. 180m to the WNW. Recorded on the latest ed. (1939) of the OS 6-inch map as ‘Nurney Castle on site of Castle’. In 1837, according to O’Conor’s Ordnance Survey Letter (Herity 2002, 146 (157)), ‘And to Walter Fitzgerald’s house is attached part of an old Castle, of which, the Baggots, are said to have been the original proprietors’. Nurney House appears to have been an 18th-century structure (OPW Topographical files), of which only the vaulted basement, containing a lot of red brick, survives. There is no visible surface trace of the earlier castle.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 october 2012
References
Herity, M. (ed.) 2002 Ordnance Survey Letters Kildare. Dublin. Four Masters Press.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.