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
- 53.02555, -9.05767
- SMR number
- CL010-064080-
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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
On elevated winter pasture within a rectangular cashel (CL010-064014-). A NNE to SSW hollow (L 4.9m; Wth at NNE end; Wth at centre 2m; Wth at SSW end 1.4m; D 0.5-0.6m) may mark the site of a possible souterrain. No stonework is evident within it or along its sides. A house site (CL010-064015-) is located 3m to the ENE and another souterrain (CL010-064100-) extends off its N wall. A wedge tomb (CL010-064013-) is located c. 54m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 27 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.