Sunville

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sunville, from 929 m² to 97,382 m² (9.74 ha, 24.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Sunville in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 26 Jun 2025Conditional

  the construction of a slatted agricultural shed, holding area, cattle crush and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 25213

• 21 Sept 2017Conditional

  the change of use of portion of dwelling previously granted permission for commercial use, (restaurant & guesthouse), under planning ref. 02/1868, back to residential use only, and permission to retain conservatory extension

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 17873

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

• LI024-118 Enclosure
  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

• LI024-323 Enclosure
  Description

  In gently undulating pasture, 90m S of Sun Ville house. Enclosure (LI024-118----) 30m to NWW. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Cropmark of enclosure (approx. diam. 25m) visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13. Not visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 23 July 2020

Architectural heritage

• Old Bridge, bridge, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone road bridge, dated 1874, over the River Mulkear. Dressed walls having cut limestone stringcourse. Carved limestone plaque to west parapet wall. Abutting pier to south elevation. Cut and chamfered coping to parapet. Segmental arch with rusticated limestone voussoirs. Single-span rubble limestone bridges to east over drainage channel, one with decorative curved parapet and one having round arch with cut stone voussoirs.

• Sunville House, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, with abutting former coach house and extensions to rear (north) elevation and single-storey canted-bay window to east elevation. Hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and overhanging eaves with timber eaves brackets. Exposed rubble sandstone walls to front (south) elevation. Roughcast rendered walls to side elevations. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows having limestone sills. Red brick block-and-start surrounds to front elevation openings. Round-headed door opening having dressed limestone voussoirs and timber panelled door flanked by sidelights with spoked fanlight. Outbuildings to rear arranged around courtyard. Pitched slate roofs with rubble sandstone walls. Square-headed openings with timber battened fittings. Round-headed rubble limestone entrance arch to yard with dressed limestone bellcote. Multiple-bay two-storey coach house to rear with entrance porch. Pitched slate roof with half-dormer windows. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows.

• Sunville House, gate lodge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted single-storey with attic storey former gate lodge, built c. 1860, with lean-to extension to south and entrance porch to front (north) elevation. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods and timber bargeboards. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with label mouldings and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed opening to porch with timber battened door. Circular-profile limestone gate piers to entrance, having cut limestone caps, flanking replacement iron gates, with pedestrian gate to side. Splayed rubble limestone side walls.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Sunville, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1217 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Sunville with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Sunville · Baile Gréine

Area

166,881 m² (16.69 ha, 41.24 acres)

Civil parish

Dromkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Grean, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,548 people lived in 533 households in the Grean electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dromlara, Garrane More, Pullagh

Placenames

Sunville on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.