NURNEY, a parish, partly in the barony of CARLOW,
and partly in that of FORTH, but chiefly in the
barony of IDRONE-EAST, county of CARLOW, and province
of LEINSTER, 2 miles (N. E.) from Leighlin-bridge,
on the road to Tullow; containing 975 inhabitants, of
which number, 284 are in the village. This parish
comprises 2758 statute acres, as applotted under the
tithe act, and valued at £2215 per annum. There is no
bog: agriculture is in a good state. Here are granite
quarries for building, and limestone for burning; and
the Barrow navigation affords the means of conveying
goods to Waterford. The village, consisting of about
50 houses, stands at the junction of several roads; it is
a constabulary police station, and has a patent for a fair
on May 6th, which is not held. The living is a rectory
and vicarage, in the diocese of Leighlin, forming the
corps of the precentorship thereof, in the patronage of
the Bishop: the tithes amount to £230. 15. 4½. The
church is a small neat building of hewn stone, erected in
1788, by aid of a gift of £500 from the late Board
of First Fruits,; and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
have recently granted £217 for its repair: the steeple
was thrown down by lightning some years since. In
the R. C. divisions the parish forms part of the union or
district of Dunleckney. The parochial school, in which
about 30 boys and 40 girls are taught, is under the
patronage of Col. Bruen, M. P., who erected the schoolhouse,
at an expense of £400. From the churchyard a
noble view of the western part of the county is procured,
with the windings of the river Barrow: in it is part of a
rude stone cross, and without its boundary stands a
perfect cross, six feet high.