Fihidy

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fihidy, from 1,991 m² to 530,549 m² (53.05 ha, 131.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Fihidy 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.

• 27 Feb 2024Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, entrance, bored well and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2463

• 14 Aug 2023Refused

  the construction of a new dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, entrance, bored well and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 23413

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 Fihidy.

Recorded monuments

• LI029-075 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on W-facing slope below top of low limestone ridge. Circular area (27.5m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.4m; Wth 3.5m). Scarp dips at NW for c. 7m. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to N. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI029-076 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle NW-facing slope. Monument, depicted as circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fihidy.

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 5 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Fihidy.

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 Fihidy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Fihidy · Na Fichidí

Area

1,490,538 m² (149.05 ha, 368.32 acres)

Civil parish

Croagh, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Dromard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dromard electoral division: 916 people in 300 households; 92% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyea, Ballylin, Ballynaguila, Milltown, Raheen

Placenames

Fihidy 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.