Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Toonagh (bunratty Upper By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toonagh (bunratty Upper By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cairn (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.84121, -8.82937
- SMR number
- CL034-095004-
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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
In low-lying position of the NE bank of the NW-SE Hell River and 9m W of the inauguration mound (CL034-095001-/CL034-095007-). A subrectangular overgrown cairn (dims. of base 21m N-S; 12m E-W; H 1.6-2.2m) with a flat top (5m N-S; 4m E-W). There are facing stones (H 0.3m) at N and S, and there is an earthen ramp (dims. of base 10m N-S; 6m E-W; Wth of top 3m E-W; max. H 1.4m) with external walling (H 0.3m) along the W side leading up to the top from the S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore and Leo Morahan
Date of upload: 19 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Inauguration siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.