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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

Tullycommon, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Tullycommon, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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