Anhid East

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Anhid East, from 2,233 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 239,653 m² (23.97 ha, 59.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Anhid East in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 16 Aug 2019Conditional

  a two storey extension to rear of dwelling

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 19817

• 3 May 2018N/a

  a two-storey extension to rear of dwelling

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 18424

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Anhid East.

Recorded monuments

• LI030-064001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Situated on grassland 35m W of the River Maigue. The well ‘Toberregan’ (LI030-065----) lies 240m to S. An enclosure surrounds the medieval church (LI030-064002-) and graveyard (LI030-064003-). The church at Anhid dates from the early 13th century and is recorded by Westropp (1904-5, 385) as 'a Parish and Prebend in Coshmagh. Atnid, 1201; Athnyde, 1291, 1302, and 1418; license to John F. Richard, of Athnyd, to cross the sea, 1297 (C.S.P.L, vol. iv., No. 461); Athneady or Adneady, 1306 (Plea R. 31 of xxv Ed. I.)’. Possible large ecclesiastical enclosure (approx. diam. 90m) running off the River Maigue and enclosing the medieval church and graveyard which was identified on oblique aerial photograph taken 17/07/1968 (CUCAP AVQ085/086). The enclosure is visible on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. The ecclesiastical enclosure is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 16/03/2016; 28/06/2018 and 14/02/2020. A series of rectangular earthworks are located NW of the church enclosure are laid out on an axis parallel to the ecclesiastical enclosure and maybe a medieval field system or possible settlement associated with the ecclesiastical site. A sunken curving linear earthwork visible on OSi orthophotos may be the remains of a hollow or sunken road See attached CUCAP photograph and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 1 October 2020

• LI030-064002 Church
  Description

  Westropp (1904-5, 385) recorded the following details about Anhid; 'A Parish and Prebend in Coshmagh. Atnid, 1201; Athnyde, 1291, 1302, and 1418; license to John f. Richard, of Athnyd, to cross the sea, 1297 (C.S.P.L, vol. iv., No. 461) ; Athneady,or Adneady, 1306 (Plea R. 31 of xxv Ed. I.). Fabric - Some ivied fragments of walls stood in 1875. The west end alone appears on the new maps; near it is Toberregan well [LI030-065----]'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 January 2019

• LI030-064003 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on grassland immediately W of the River Maigue. W gable of medieval parish church (LI030-064002-) of Anhid stands in W quadrant of sub-rectangular shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 37m N-S x 50m E-W) enclosed by post-1700 stone wall with entrance gate at W end of S wall. Curving bank immediately to E and curving earthwork 28m to N visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph appears to represent the remains of an earlier ecclesiastical enclosure (LI030-064001-). Curving earthwork of dried up stream visible to S and W of graveyard. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 January 2019

• LI030-065 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Holy well described by Ó Danachair as following; ' "Toberregan" on 1840 map. A slight trickle of water issuing from the eroded river bank. No devotions now, but rounds were made formerly. The water cured headaches. Locally called "Egan's Well" ' (Ó Danachair 1955, 209). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 January 2019

• LI030-138 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, abutting a townland boundary with Anhid west, to N and 455m SW of the River Maigue. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified as two concentric circular-shaped cropmarks visible on aerial photography by Celie O’Rahilly, Limerick County Archaeologist in advance of construction of the Croom bypass. Monument described as: ‘A circular mound defined by a shallow ditch abutting the northern boundary [of a field]. Approximate north-south diameter is 36m. This site would not appear to be affected by the route line’. Monument is visible as a bivallate circular-shaped cropmark with a small annexe to S, on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/03/2017 and 14/02/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 23 October 2020

Architectural heritage

• Anhid House, house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1800. Hipped roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings having replacement uPVC windows and concrete sills. Square-headed opening with replacement uPVC door. Outbuildings to site.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_884 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Anhid East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Anhid East · Aithnid Thoir

Area

482,820 m² (48.28 ha, 119.31 acres)

Civil parish

Anhid, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Croom, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Croom electoral division: 1,931 people in 671 households; 68% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Anhid West, Ballymacrory, Dohora, Tooreen, Tullovin

Placenames

Anhid East on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.