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Ringfort - rath

Toonagh (Bunratty Upper By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Toonagh, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Toonagh (Bunratty Upper By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.84167, -8.82966
SMR number
CL034-095008-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Situated in a low-lying area at the NW edge of a natural amphitheatre on the E bank of the Hell River. The inauguration mound of Magh Adhair (CL034-095001-CL034-095007-) is 45m to the SE, also within the amphitheatre. A circular area (diam. 21.8m N-S; 20.6m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.7-1.6m) reduced to a scarp (H 1.6m) at W, a fosse (Wth of top 4.7-5m; Wth of base 1.4-2m; D 0.4-0.8m) and an outer bank (Wth 3.4-3.6m; H 0.3-0.9m) from E through S to W. There are entrances (Wth 4m) in the inner bank at E and NNW. Enclosure (CL034-095009-) is conjoined to the NE.

Compiled by: Leo Morahan and Michael Moore

Date of upload: 4 March 2015

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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