Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
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
- 52.84190, -8.82917
- SMR number
- CL034-095010-
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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 with the inauguration mound of Magh Adhair (CL034-095001-) 45m to the SE. An earth and stone field boundary (Wth 2.5-3.5m; max. H 0.5m) c. 7m N of a ringfort (CL034-095008-) and enclosure (CL034-095009-) extending E-W for c. 90m before veering SE for a further 30m. Another boundary extends NW from that point for c. 60m. The boundaries are visible on a Google Earth aerial photograph (taken 5 February 2009, accessed 4 March 2015).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 4 March 2015
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.