# Fihidy, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Croagh, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick; in Irish Na Fichidí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,490,538 m² (149.05 ha, 368.32 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 28,210 m² (2.82 ha, 6.97 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Croagh, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/croagh.md - Barony: Connello Lower - Electoral division: Dromard, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32059 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120989 - Centre: latitude 52.51231, longitude -8.85014 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fihidy, from 1,991 m² to 530,549 m² (53.05 ha, 131.1 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1592730: 530,549 m² (53.05 ha, 131.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1592730.md - Parcel 1592729: 262,649 m² (26.26 ha, 64.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1592729.md - Parcel 2383513: 217,039 m² (21.7 ha, 53.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2383513.md - Parcel 1671655: 191,015 m² (19.1 ha, 47.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1671655.md - Parcel 1671654: 138,576 m² (13.86 ha, 34.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1671654.md - Parcel 4645654: 28,210 m² (2.82 ha, 6.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4645654.md - Parcel 1592731: 27,022 m² (2.7 ha, 6.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1592731.md - Parcel 1638330: 10,155 m² (1.02 ha, 2.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1638330.md - Parcel 6105608: 3,844 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6105608.md - Parcel 1637554: 2,118 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1637554.md - Parcel 3377040: 1,991 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3377040.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 27 Feb 2024, Limerick County Council 2463: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a new dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, entrance, bored well and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2463/0 - 14 Aug 2023, Limerick County Council 23413: Refused. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a new dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, entrance, bored well and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/23413/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Fihidy. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI029-075: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI029-075----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI029-076----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fihidy. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/fihidy.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/fihidy.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/fihidy.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Fihidy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyea: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyea-120221.md - Ballylin: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballylin-120290.md - Ballynaguila: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynaguila.md - Milltown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/milltown-121549.md - Raheen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/raheen-121713.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/fihidy - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/fihidy