What is recorded here
Toonagh holds an unclassified megathic tomb where ancient hands may have stacked stone before written memory began. The chamber still waits beneath soil and grass, preserving the shape of burial rather than the names of the dead. It is not a display or a postcard, but a quiet claim that human life once measured eternity in stone.
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961)
Date of upload: 30 December 2011
A portal dolmen; Neolithic period. Recorded in early 20th-century surveys, it contributes to understanding megalithic traditions in west Clare.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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