Nurney Demesne

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Nurney Demesne, from 139 m² to 761,630 m² (76.16 ha, 188.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Demesne 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.

• 29 Jun 2026N/a

  for the construction of a single storey detached bungalow, single storey detached domestic garage, secondary effluent treatment system, access through existing entrance and farmyard and all associated site works. The development is within the curtilage of protected structure Nurney Demense house, rps ref: b27-13

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660708

• 14 Oct 2025Refused

  For construction of a single storey detached bungalow, single storey detached domestic garage, secondary effluent treatment system, access through existing entrance and farmyard and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561160

• 4 Dec 2023Conditional

  a 30 metres lattice telecommunications antenna support structure carrying antennas, a dish, remote radio units (RRU's), together with ground-based equipment cabinets, GPS, fencing, gantry pole, concrete foundation and all associated site development works for the provision of high-speed wireless data and broadband services.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 231007

• 6 Mar 2023Conditional

  1) family flat as constructed as part of planning ref: 17534 and, 2) domestic outbuilding for storage purposes. Planning Permission is sought for extension and modifications to existing dwelling to include, connection to existing family flat and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23208

• 28 Mar 2022Conditional

  sought for the continuation of existing use of a detached structure as a playschool/Montessori (originally permitted under Pl. Ref. 04/2442), foul water to existing on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soak aways and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 22345

• 1 Jun 2021Conditional

  change of use from domestic garage to a one bedroom dwelling, with a waste water treatment system and percolation area, with all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21775

• 13 Sept 2019Conditional

  Single storey rear extension to existing single storey dwelling and all associated site development works.

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 191021

• 11 Aug 2017Conditional

  one & half storey dwelling, access from existing driveway, septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17912

• 11 May 2017Conditional

  (1) Dormer extension to the side and rear of a one storey house; (2) To demolish an existing shed attached to the side and rear of the house; (3) A one storey granny flat attached to the rear of the house; (4) A new septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17534

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 Demesne.

Recorded monuments

• KD027-030 Mound
  Description

  Shown on the OS 25-inch map as a square mound (est. max. c. 16m ENE-WSW; c. 16m NNW-SSE). Extensive land clearance and field consolidation has occurred in this area, and no visible surface traces survive. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 October 2012

• KD027-058 Enclosure
  Description

  Reported by Jean-Charles Caillere; faintly visible on Digital Globe aerial imagery as a circular area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by the cropmark of a fosse, in tillage. Also visible immediately to the S are two parallel linear cropmarks of a former shelterbelt of trees which formed this part of the townland boundary separating Nurney Demesne from Balkinstown townland to the SW. A second levelled enclosure (KD027-029----) lies c. 100m to the WSW. See attached image: KD027-058----_01 Snip from Digital Globe aerial imagery. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 9 June 2023

Architectural heritage

• Nurney Church, church/chapel, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height Gothic-style Church of Ireland church, built 1837-41, with lancet-arch openings and single-bay three-stage entrance tower to west having battlemented parapet and single-bay single-storey flanking bays including vestry projection. Gable-ended roofs with slate (behind battlemented parapet walls to tower and to flanking bays). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves band. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Battlemented roof parapets to tower and to flanking bays with rendered stringcourses and coping. Corner pinnacles to tower. Lancet-arch window openings (tripartite arrangement to east). Chamfered stone sills. Cut-stone block-and-start surrounds. Diamond-leaded traceried windows. Square-headed window opening to tower and to flanking bays. Cut-stone sills. Cut-stone hood mouldings. Fixed-pane timber diamond-leaded windows with lancet-arch panels. Pointed-arch door opening. Cut-stone chamfered surround. Timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds. Gravel forecourt to front.

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 Demesne.

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 Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Nurney Demesne · Diméin na hUrnaí

Area

1,366,178 m² (136.62 ha, 337.59 acres)

Civil parish

Nurney, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Nurney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Nurney electoral division: 1,196 people in 361 households; 86% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balkinstown, Blackditch, Kildoon, Nurney, Walterstown

Placenames

Nurney Demesne 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.