Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Anhid East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Anhid East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Anhid Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Anhid Grave Yd. (1924).
- Coordinates
- 52.50352, -8.70764
- SMR number
- LI030-064003-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's 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
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.