Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Dunkip, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunkip
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51393, -8.63538
- SMR number
- LI031-129----
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 improved pasture immediately S of townland boundary with Rathmore. Ringfort (LI031-025002-) lies 350m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular cropmark from examination of aerial photograph (BGE 1:10,000 No. 37) taken 03/11/1984 associated with Bord Gáis Eireann Curraghleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage and as a partial cropmark (diam. c. 26m) transected at NW by a post-1700 field boundary running NE-SW on Google Earth orthophoto dated 28/06/2018.
See attached photocopy of gas pipeline aerial taken 1984 and Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 1 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.