Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Clooneybreen, Toor, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooneybreen, Toor
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 52.89761, -9.36524
- SMR number
- CL023-023----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the top of a low wide ridge NE-SW ridge in fertile pasture with higher ground to SE and good views to NW. Hachured as a large oval ringfort (c. 45m NW-SE; c. 35m NE-SW) on the 1840 OS 6-inch map. On inspection in 1999 there were no visible remains at ground level.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 19 November 2025
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.