Nurney Civil Parish, County Carlow, Ireland Genealogy

Ireland County Carlow  Nurney Civil Parish

The following information is a starting point for records about the civil parish of Nurney. The information is based on locations and records before 1922.

History
Nurney is 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. It is located two miles northeast of Leighlin-bridge, on the road to Tullow.

The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Leighlin. In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union or district of Dunleckney.

Localities
The parish of Nurney is surrounded by the parishes of Agha, Clonmelsh, Fennagh, Kiltegan, Templepeter, Tullowcreen, Tullowmagimma, and Wells. It is located in the poor law union of Carlow.

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Cemeteries
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Census
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Church of Ireland

 * Nurney Parish Register: Transcribed with images online at Irish Genealogy Website (Free)

Presbyterian
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Methodist
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Society of Friends
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Civil Registration
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Land records
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Probate records
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School records
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Tax records
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