Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tooreen East, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tooreen East
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.87788, -9.06881
- SMR number
- CL033-198----
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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
On a S-facing slope in pasture. A circular area (diam. c. 40m) defined by a low bank and possible fosse. Visible on Google Earth (Imagery date: 19 Jan 2020). A bivallate ringfort (CL025-177----) lies c. 170m to the NNW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 12 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.