Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
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
- 53.01471, -9.07065
- SMR number
- CL010-064090-
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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 half of the inner enclosure at Cahercommaun (CL010-064003-) and conjoined with another hut site at W (CL010-064089-; Hencken 1938, 2, structure 5). A poorly constructed curvilinear house (diam. c. 6m) with a hearth (Hencken 1938, 2, structure 6) forming part of a cellular complex. Hencken noted that this structure was most likely occupied by the ‘chief’. From the point of view of attack this was the safest part of the fort possibly explaining why the principal dwellings where located there (Cotter 1999, 66). Five steps lead down to a souterrain (CL010-064077-). 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
Cotter, C. 1999 Cahercommaun Fort, Co. Clare: a reassessment of its cultural context. Discovery Programme Reports 5, 41-95. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy.
Hencken, H. O'Neill 1938 Cahercommaun: a stone fort in County Clare. Dublin. Royal Society of Antiquaries (extra volume).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.