Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Sunglen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sunglen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54876, -8.36514
- SMR number
- LI024-182----
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 rough pasture, immediately E of access road to dwelling, 44m S of a road that marks the townland boundary with Knockgrean. Not depicted on OS historical mapping. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 34; AP 4/3669) as a small semi-circular enclosure with outer enclosing element visible at SE. Cropmark is not visible on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff survey image marked Bruff 34
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 27 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.