Athnid

Athnid (Irish Áth Nid, "ford of the nest"^[1]), some times written Adnith, or Athnett, is a civil parish in the barony of Eliogarty in County Tipperary. It is divided into two townlands: Athnid More (containing a little more than 638 acres)) and Athnid Beg (containing a little more than 216 acres).

Athnid
Civil parish
Athnid Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°43′20.64″N 7°46′15.49″W
Country	Ireland

Location within north Tipperary

Townlands in the parish

Writing in 1837, Lewis said that the parish had 253 inhabitants.^[2]

Church of Ireland parish

Like all civil parishes, this civil parish is derived from, and co-extensive with a pre-existing Church of Ireland parish of the same name.^{[citation needed]}

The lands of Athnid parish were owned by the Cistercian Abbey of Woney in County Limerick.^[3] The lands of the parish were mentioned in rent returns for 1303.^[4]

Lewis said that the vicarage of Athnid was "partly united, by act of council, in 1682" to the living of the Church of Ireland parish of Thurles.^[5]

See also

• List of civil parishes of Tipperary