Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
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
- 53.01473, -9.07073
- SMR number
- CL010-064077-
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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 in the N portion of Cahercommaun (CL010-064003-). This souterrain (L 7m; Wth 0.67-1.1m) led from what Hencken (1938, 2) called the dwelling of the ‘chief occupant’ (CL010-064090-) under the inner wall of the fort to the edge of the ravine where a vertical crevice in the face of the cliff offered a means of escape in an emergency. A layer of mostly ash mixed with bones (D 0.35m) was found on bedrock at the bottom of the souterrain. Cahercommaun is a national monument in State care. (Hencken 1938, 1-81; Cotter 1999, 41-95)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 4 October 2016
References
Hencken, H. O'Neill 1938 Cahercommaun: a stone fort in County Clare. Dublin. Royal Society of Antiquaries (extra volume).
Cotter, C. 1999 Cahercommaun Fort, Co. Clare: a reassessment of its cultural context. Discovery Programme Reports 5, 41-95. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.