Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Tullycommon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullycommon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02964, -9.05695
- SMR number
- CL010-064016-
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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
On the NW shoulder of a high (between the 500’ and 600’ contours) ridge in rough pasture, overlooking the Castletown River valley SW-W-NW, with ground rising up steeply to the S and SE. Within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL010-064001-). Indicated on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and the Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This subrectangular cashel (int. dims. 38m NNW-SSE; 32m ENE-WSW) is defined by a double-faced stone wall (Wth 1-1.1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.7-1.2m) built of uncoursed but regular blocks. A later field wall is built over the cashel perimeter. The SE quadrant (int. dims. 22m E-W; max. 6m N-S) of the rocky and uneven interior is enclosed by a curving stony bank (Wth 2m; H 0.7m) and within this subdivision are two oval cells or animal pens (int. dims. c. 4m N-S; 2m E-W). A hut site (CL010-243----) lies c. 82m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 6 April 2023
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.