Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Doonvullen Lower, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonvullen Lower
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56817, -8.47507
- SMR number
- LI023-290----
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 low-lying and gently undulating pasture, 80m W of the Groody River. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a large suboval-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 275: AP 4/3712). Monument is visible as a large sub-oval-shaped cropmark (55m ENE-WSW; 38m NNW-SSE) defined by a thin band of dark green rushes from ENE-S-WSW on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe aerial orthophoto taken 2011-2013. Area to N and E of monument has been planted with forestry as seen on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 275.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 14 September 2020
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.