Sunville Upper

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sunville Upper, from 96 m² to 300,430 m² (30.04 ha, 74.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Upper 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.

• 4 Dec 2025Conditional

  the as built extension to the rear of existing dwelling house and garden room to the rear of the site for use ancillary to the dwelling house on site. Planning Permission is also being sought to alter an existing roof light to a dormer window at the side of the house, the installation of a new proprietary domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2561269

• 19 Sept 2025Conditional

  renovating existing dwelling house, constructing an extension to the rear, and installing treatment plant with percolation area

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560942

• 23 Mar 2022Conditional

  the construction of a one & a half storey farmhouse dwelling, septic tank and percolation area; new entrance & driveway & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22317

• 15 Mar 2022Conditional

  the revision of site boundary and subsequent site area to the agricultural development, reference 20/821 granted 06/10/2020 and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22297

• 2 Jul 2021Conditional

  extension of our dwelling house consisting of construction of gamesroom and bedroom, extension and alteration to existing bedroom no. 3 to the rear of the dwelling at first floor level, repositioning of gable window in bedroom no. 4 and all associated works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21932

• 4 Dec 2020Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, recessed site entrance, wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201289

• 11 Sept 2020Conditional

  construction of a two storey dwelling house, garage, entrance, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20904

• 21 Aug 2020Conditional

  construction of an agricultural shed with slatted tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20821

• 21 Aug 2020Conditional

  construction of an agricultural shed with slatted tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20820

• 22 Jan 2020Conditional

  to carry out works to the existing dwelling (a) fit new roof, remove front porch and replace glazed projection, fit a corner window to the south-east gable and construct a single storey to rear, (b) construct a detached domestic garage/store, (c) enlarge existing entrance and (d) install a new septic tank and percolation area

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2038

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Castleoliver Woods 002090

Recorded monuments

• LI056-029 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Ó Danachair (1955, 209) recorded the following details about this holy well; 'St Anne's Well on 1840 map. A small oval well, about three by two feet, roughly walled with dry-stone to one foot over ground level. An old whitethorn tree grows over the well; there was a large poplar tree there formerly. No devotions now, but rounds were made up to about 1930. The water cured sore eyes; the cloth used to bathe the eyes was left as an offering. The feast of St Anne, 26th July, was a day of special devotion. The 1928 edition of the 6-inch O.S. map gives the name as "Tobar Fhionáin" but local tradition is unanimous in rejecting this name'. The following folklore was recorded from Ardpatrick National School about St. Anne's Well; 'There are two holy wells near Ardpatrick's one on the hill. St Patricks's Well townland (Ardpatrick) & the other St Ann's in the townland of Upper Sunville. Both are marked on the ordnance map but St Ann's has been changed on the last edition of same to St Finian's. This is totally against tradition. All the old people were, & are, positive on this point' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0509, Page 216; accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922041/4921299/4950170?ChapterID=4922041) See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00256 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24555 and F025.21.00255 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24554. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 1 October 2020

• LI056-031 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture on summit of Knockbrack Hill, 250m S of the townland boundary with Mortlestown. Enclosure (LI056-033----) lies 450m to SE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 28m) defined by a scarp, surrounded by a quarry from N-E-SE. Not shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map where the area of the and pit has expanded into the area where the earthwork was located. A lime kiln is depicted standing on the W edge of the quarry. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages where farm buildings are located to immediate S. Earthwork was quarried out in the 19th century when the sand pit was enlarged. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 18 November 2021

• LI056-033 Ringfort - rath
  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

Architectural heritage

• The Sunvale Inn, house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey with attic house, built c. 1880, with render pubfront to front (west) elevation and two-storey abutting building to north-east elevation. Formerly also in use as pub. Pitched slate roof having red brick chimneystacks, with terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with render quoins to first floor. Camber-headed openings to first floor having red brick block-and-start surrounds to one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. Pubfront comprising central round-headed opening with double-leaf timber panelled door and fanlight, flanked by round-headed display windows having red brick block-and-start surrounds and shuttered windows, with extended rendered facia having render and timber lettering and moulded cornice. Round-headed opening to eastern end ground floor façade, having red brick block-and-start surround, wrought-iron sill guard and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills. Round-headed opening having red brick-block-and-start surround and timber panelled door. Gabled outbuilding to rear with pitched corrugated-iron roof, cast-iron rainwater goods and render copings. Rubble stone walls, rendered to ground floor. Square-headed openings with timber battened doors and timber windows. Ground floor door approached by flight of concrete steps. Vehicular side entrance to south with wrought-iron double-leaf gates and square-profile rendered piers.

• Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted single-cell Roman Catholic church, built in 1835, and renovated in 1928-29. With five-bay nave elevation, two-storey sacristy and adjoining to south two-storey four-bay former school, built in 1859, now in use as a community centre. Pitched replacement slate roof having render copings, cross finial to front (north) elevation and replacement cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having painted render quoins, stringcourses, date stone and limestone water fonts to front elevation. Pointed arch opening to front elevation having render intersecting Y- tracery, stained glass windows with cut limestone base, flanked by lancet windows with render surrounds and cut limestone bases. Pointed arch openings to nave having Y-tracery to windows and render surrounds. Round-headed window opening with replacement frosted window to sacristy, east elevation. Ogee-headed central door opening to north elevation, flanked by pointed arch door openings, all having replacement timber battened doors. Square-headed door opening to sacristy having render label moulding and replacement timber battened door. Timber king-post truss roof to interior. Timber gallery to north.

• Ard na Gréine, house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1890, with return to rear. Hipped replacement slate roof having rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed openings having concrete sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening having replacement timber panelled door with overlight flanked by render pilasters with decorative capitals supporting cornice. Outbuilding to rear having pitched slate roof and roughcast rendered 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 Upper, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Sunville Upper.

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 Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Sunville Upper · Baile an Ghrianaigh Uachtarach

Area

2,116,681 m² (211.67 ha, 523.04 acres)

Civil parish

Particles, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Particles, the unit of the census

Census 2022

222 people lived in 86 households in the Particles electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardpatrick, Baunmore, Castleoliver, Fanningstown, Moneen, Mortlestown, Sunville Lower, Toor

Placenames

Sunville Upper 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.