Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle
Tornant Upper, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tornant Upper
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04296, -6.69542
- SMR number
- WI015-037----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
National Monument in state ownership No. 531. Listed as a 'stone circle' in the SMR (1986) and as a possible 'stone circle' in the RMP (1995). On the saddle of a rocky E-W ridge with a marked slope to the S. A scatter of mainly split quartz boulders to the NE of enclosure (WI015-038----) which may be part of a displaced revetment. One of the boulder fragments has a curved groove (Wth 0.02m; D 0.01m) on its flat upper surface. Price (1934, 38-39) mentions that the 'circle' had a diameter of 'about 120 feet' (c. 36.5m) and was formed by twelve stones nearly all broken by blasting. A single large stone ocurs to the SW (of WI015-038----).
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 21 December 2012
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 150/1940).
References
Price, L. 1934 The ages of stone and bronze in Co. Wicklow, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 42C, 31-64.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.