Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Sunville Upper, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sunville Upper
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cathair na caillighe - Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.33575, -8.50076
- SMR number
- LI056-033----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture 180m S of the townland boundary with Mortlestown. Enclosure (LI056-008----) lies 195m to NE. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. c. 32m) enclosed by a bank from S-N-E, incorporated into a field boundary elsewhere. Truncated at SE by a field boundary running NE-SW. Annotated ‘Cathair na caillighe’ on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. Monument is visible as a circular-shaped area delimited by trees on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 17 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.