About Nerrigundah
Nerrigundah is a small village on the Eurobodalla
Nature Coast in south eastern New South Wales.
Situated at the head of the Tuross River Valley,
Nerrigundah is nineteen kilometres inland from
Bodalla. At the 2006
census, Nerrigundah had a population of 100
people.
The place name of Nerrigundah is derived from an
aboriginal word for 'camp where edible berries
grow'.
Nerrigundah and its valley were used as a cattle
run by Thomas Mort of Bodalla prior to the
discovery of gold on 23 December 1860 by George
Cook, Joseph Goodenough and William Crouch.
The discovery of gold was recorded at the office of
the Gold Commissioner at Braidwood, New South
Wales on 2 January 1861.