Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Tullycommon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullycommon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.01593, -9.07205
- SMR number
- CL010-064061-
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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 a slight rise near the W end of a ridge, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL010-064001-). Listed as ‘Cairn’ in the RMP (1996). Reported as a ‘small cairn’ by Tom Coffey (SMR file). An oval-shaped possible cairn (4.8m N-S; 3.5m E-W; H 0.8m), possibly a small collapsed animal pen or shelter. There is an enclosure (CL010-064050-) c. 45m to the SE. Cahercommaun cashel (CL010-064003-) is visible c. 130m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 17 May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.