Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Tullycommon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullycommon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01557, -9.06231
- SMR number
- CL010-064006-
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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 on a gentle W-facing slope on the line of a N-S field wall with the townland boundary 53m to the S. A wedge tomb in good condition, composed of two sidestones, a backstone and two roofstones. The tomb faces W (Wth 1.15m at the opening) and narrows towards the back (Wth 0.7m). There is a single sidestone at S (L 2.25m; H 0.7m; T 0.15m) and a single sidestone at N (L 2.6m; max. H 0.9m; T 0.2m). The chamber decreases in height from 0.8m at the front to 0.7m at the back. A single backstone (L 1.4m; H 0.75) at E has two stones extending E, one from the S end (L 0.9m; H 0.24m) and one from the N (L 1m; H 0.15m) possibly indicating a second chamber. Traces of a cairn can be seen extending S, W and N of the entrance, making a D-shaped cairn (7m N-S; 3m E-W; H 0.3m at N, 0.8m at W, 0.8m at S). This wedge tomb is national monument in state care, no. 270.
The following items have been uploaded:
CL010-064006-_01.jpg View from SW.
CL010-064004-_02.jpg View from SE.
CL010-064006-_03.jpg View from N.
CL010-064006-_04.jpg View from E.
CL010-064006-_01.pdf
Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 16 October 2018
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.