Site of Nunnery — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

O’Conor’s Ordnance Survey Letter (Herity 2002, 146 (159)) records that in 1837 Nurney village still pointed to a nunnery spot, though no remains were observable and only a very small portion of the wall line was said never to have been dug or tilled. The claim survived absence, which is often what makes a lost religious house memorable: people kept naming the place even after the place stopped answering. Modern housing now stands immediately to the W and NW on the gentle N-slope of the shallow E-W valley, while the small river still flows W through the same quiet ground.

On the gentle N-slope of a shallow E-W valley through a small river flows W. Modern housing has been constructed immediately to the W and NW. In 1837, according to O’Conor’s Ordnance Survey Letter (Herity 2002, 146 (159)), ‘… in Nurney village is pointed out a spot, where, it is said, there was formerly a nunnery. No remains are now observable; but a very small portion of the site, where some of the walls occupied, is said not to have been dug up, or tilled.’ The nunnery is not mentioned by Gwynn and Hadcock (1970). In 1967, burials (KD027-025001-) were uncovered in the vicinity. No surface traces of the nunnery were visible in 1986 (SMR file). In 1987, archaeological trial-trenching (Excavation Licence no. 97E0142) was undertaken in advance of a private development immediately S of the presumed location of the nunnery. No structures, deposits or finds of archaeological interest were uncovered. (http://www.excavations.ie/Pages/Details.php?Year=&County=Kildare&id=1915 Accessed 07-09-2012) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 October 2012

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