Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Toonagh (bunratty Upper By.), County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.