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Nerrigundah is a locality and former village in south eastern New South Wales situated at the head of the Tuross River Valley, nineteen kilometres inland from Bodalla. At the 2016 census, Nerrigundah had a population of 25.

The Walbanga people, a group of the Yuin once lived over the area. It is not known how long the Walbanga people lived over the area as the area underwent significant change with sea level rise 18,000 to 7,500 years ago which completely displaced inhabitants of previous coastal areas and resulted in dramatic changes in distributions of peoples. The place name, 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.

On 8 April 1866, Nerrigundah was raided by bushrangers, the Clarke brothers, Thomas and John, and their associates. They held up a number of passers-by outside the town at Deep Creek and then attacked the store and hotel. During the raid, William Fletcher, a new recruit to the Clarke gang, was shot dead as was Trooper Miles O'Grady when he tried to intervene. Trooper O'Grady was buried in Moruya and a monument to his memory erected at Nerrigundah.

Although the area was already a mining settlement, the site of the Village of Nerrigundah was not reserved until April 1868.
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