Shanid

{{Short description|Barony in County Limerick, Ireland}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Use Irish English|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Shanid

| native_name = Seanaid (Irish)

| settlement_type = Barony

| image_skyline =Shanid Castle County Limerick.jpg

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| image_caption = Shanid Castle

| image_map =Baronies of Limerick.jpg

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| map_caption = Barony map of County Limerick, 1900; Shanid is in the northwest, coloured orange.

| subdivision_type = Sovereign state

| subdivision_name = Ireland

| subdivision_type1 = Province

| subdivision_name1 = Munster

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Limerick

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| area_total_km2 =340.2

| area_total_sq_mi =131.4

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Shanid ({{irish place name|Seanaid}}) is a historical barony in northwest County Limerick, Ireland.The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland: Adapted to the New Poor-law, Franchise, Municipal and Ecclesiastical Arrangements, and Compiled with a Special Reference to the Lines of Railroad and Canal Communication, as Existing in 1814-45. (1846:215–6). Ireland: A. Fullarton and Company.{{Cite web|url=https://www.townlands.ie/limerick/shanid2/|title=Shanid|website=www.townlands.ie}}

Baronies were mainly cadastral rather than administrative units.{{Cite web|url=https://landedestates.ie/barony/361|title=CoshleaBarony | Landed Estates | University of Galway|website=landedestates.ie}} They acquired modest local taxation and spending functions in the 19th century before being superseded by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898.{{cite book |author=General Register Office of Ireland |title=Census of Ireland 1901: General topographical index |chapter-url=http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/PageBrowser?path=Browse/Census%20(by%20date)/1901/Ireland&active=yes&mno=453&tocstate=expandnew&tocseq=3800&display=sections&display=tables&display=pagetitles&pageseq=first-nonblank |series=Command papers |volume=Cd. 2071 |year=1904 |publisher=HMSO |pages=966–978 |chapter=Alphabetical index to the baronies of Ireland}}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ni0NAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Athlone+North%22++&pg=RA1-PA79|title=Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records and of the Keeper of the State Papers in Ireland: Presented to Both Houses of the Oireachtas|first=Ireland Public Record|last=Office|date=12 February 1891|publisher=Stationery Office.|via=Google Books}}