Nurney

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Nurney, from 1,329 m² to 527,197 m² (52.72 ha, 130.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Nurney in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 31 Aug 2026N/a

  The development will consist of: (A) Single storey extension to south side of existing sports hall granted permission under file ref 16/364, (B) Retention permission sought for development of first floor, (C) All associated site works.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660979

• 27 Aug 2026N/a

  The development will consist of: (A) Single storey extension to south side of existing sports hall granted permission under file ref 16/364, (B) Retention permission sought for development of first floor, (C) All associated site works.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660967

• 25 Aug 2026N/a

  (A) Single storey extension to south side of existing sports hall granted permission under file ref 16/364, (B) Retention permission sought for development of first floor, (C) All associated site works.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660957

• 13 Oct 2025Conditional

  works to uprate the existing Rinawade – Dunfirth Tee – Kinnegad 110kV overhead line (OHL). Within County Kildare, the proposed development will take place within the following townlands: Confey, Parsonstown, Barnhall, Easton, Rinawade Upper, Rinawade Lower, Castletown, Oldcarton, Nicholastown, Killickaweeny, Cappagh, Newtown, Ballynakill, Ballyvoneen, Dysart, Dunfierth, Coolree, Kilmurry, Thomastown, Kilshanchoe, Clonagh, Cadamstown, Tanderagee, Calfstown, Ballinderry, Balrinnet, Kilglass, Nurney, Williamstown, Ballindoolin, Carrick, Grange East, Rahin. The Rinawade - Dunfirth Tee - Kinnegad 110 kV OHL circuit runs through County Meath, County Kildare and County Offaly. It is 54 km in length and travels from Kinnegad 110 kV substation in Killaskillen (County Meath) and traverses southeast where a short loop into Dunfirth 110 kV substation in Dunfirth (County Kildare) exists. The line then continues southeast where it terminates at Rinawade 110kV substation in Rinawade Lower (County Kildare). The OHL has a total of 249no. supporting structures. Within the functional area of Kildare County Council, there is 30.66 km of the existing OHL circuit, with 140 no. structures. Within the functional area of Meath County Council there is 23.16 km, with 107 no. structures, and within the functional area of Offaly County Council there is 0.42 km, with 2 no. structures. Separate planning applications will be lodged with Meath County Council and Offaly County Council. The proposed development within Co. Kildare will comprise: the replacement (“restringing”) of the existing OHL circuit conductor wires with a new higher capacity conductor between structure numbers 93 - 153, 224 - 226, and 240 - 247; the strengthening of tower foundations at 9no. locations; the strengthening of towers (i.e., member replacement) at 14no. locations; the painting of towers at 15no. locations; shear block remedial works of towers at 1no. location; the replacement of polesets at 43no. locations, with similar structures. There will be no change in height at 6no. poleset replacements. There will be height increases between 0.1m and 2.0m at 33no. poleset replacements. Poleset numbers 67, 72 and 132 will increase in height no greater than 3.0m, and poleset number 151 will increase in height no greater than 4.0m; the replumbing of polesets at 14no. locations; the replacement of insulating and ancillary hardware at all structures where conductor wires will be replaced; the replacement of stay wire/a

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2561155

• 12 Aug 2025Refused

  for construction of a two storey dwelling and a waste water treatment system and a vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560923

• 25 Jul 2025N/a

  for the construction of a two storey dwelling and a waste water treatment system and a vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560844

• 23 Jun 2025N/a

  for a two storey dwelling and a waste water treatment system and a vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560693

• 25 Sept 2019Conditional

  retention and completion of works having a floor area of 41sqm within an existing agricultural building to a Farm TV/Video Production Studio with connection into the existing septic tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 191062

• 14 Mar 2017Conditional

  the construction of a private residence and garage together with connection to a proprietary wastewater treatment system including all ancillary site works as revised by significant further information containing a revised position and design of the dwelling, revised site layout, revised entrance arrangements and revised treatments system

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17277

• 28 Feb 2017N/a

  construction of a private residence and garage, together with connection to existing services and including all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17205

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Nurney.

Recorded monuments

• KD003-008001 Church
  Description

  Marked in the S sector of a graveyard (KD003-008002-) on the 1st. ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD003-008002 Graveyard
  Description

  On a very gentle NW-slope in gently undulating pastureland. A square area (dims. c. 40m NE-SW; c. 40m NW-SE) is enclosed by a modern stone wall and is still used for burial. The earliest legible grave-markers date to the 18thC. There is no visible surface trace of a church (KD003-008001-) which was contained in the S sector, according to the 1st. ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Nurney.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Nurney.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Nurney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Nurney

Area

1,486,602 m² (148.66 ha, 367.35 acres)

Civil parish

Nurney, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Kilrainy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilrainy electoral division: 773 people in 241 households; 82% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinderry, Balrinnet, Fearavolla, Freagh, Haggard, Knockcor, Williamstown

Placenames

Nurney on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.