Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Sunville, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sunville
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57700, -8.33233
- SMR number
- LI024-118----
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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 gently undulating pasture, 90m SW of Sun Ville house, abutting the former townland boundary which was moved 50m to SW between 1840 and 1897. Enclosure (LI024-323----) 30m to ESE. Monument identified as an oval-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 136: AP 4/3723). Partial outline of enclosure is visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 28m) on OSi orthophotos taken 2005-12. Not visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 23 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.