Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Wonderhill, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Wonderhill
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.53741, -8.42616
- SMR number
- LI023-238----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture on a S-facing slope with good views to the S and W. The site is located 390m E of the townland boundary with Galboola and 380m NE of an enclosure (LI023-237----). The monument is not depicted on historic OSi maps but is visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 132; AP 4/3633) as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m). The site survives as an above the ground monument on the most recent Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/03/20 17 and 28/06/2018.
See attached Bruff survey image showing enclosure labelled Bruff 132 and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 31 August 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.