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Anolda does not look or sound particularly Irish to me. It looks more like it would have a Germanic origin, like other names with 'old' in them (Harold, Leopold, Arnold etc - all containing the element wald meaning "rule"). I would expect that Anolda is another such name.

When I googled Anolda I came up with lots of women named Anolda living in northern Europe (including Germany, Finland, the Netherlands and Lithuania), which would seem to bear out this hypothesis.