Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Dunganville Upper, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunganville Upper
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 52.48990, -9.10414
- SMR number
- LI028-178----
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 hilly sloping pasture abutting the townland boundary with Glenastar. A recently identified large enclosure (LI028-194----) lies 220m to SE. A fort known as ‘Lisheennabinna’ (LI028-082-----) lies 420m to SE. The possible monument is depicted as a small polygonal-shaped field (ext. diam. 22m N-S; 20m E-W) on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map, Depicted as a roughly circular shaped field on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Not depicted as an antiquity on any edition of the OSi maps. The site is not visible on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 or on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. The site is visible on the Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/10/2010 but not on the subsequent orthoimage taken 08/04/2015.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 24 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.