Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tooreen West, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tooreen West
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.87614, -9.07887
- SMR number
- CL033-010----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the bottom of a SE-facing slope. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 22m E-W; 20.8m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 4-5m; int. H 0.6-0.7m; ext. H 0.8m at N to 1.7m at S) and an outer rounded fosse (at N: Wth of top 6m; D 0.4m to 1m at NE), which becomes a N-S stream NE-SE and which is not visible SE-SW. There is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 April 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.