Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
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
- 53.01423, -9.07034
- SMR number
- CL010-064096-
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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
Attached to the inside of the outermost wall at Cahercommaun (CL010-064003-) at S and immediately E of one of the radial walls extending from the middle to the outer wall. A small hut site (dims. c. 3m N-S; c. 2.5m E-W) with an entrance at SE mentioned by Hencken (1938, 11) as one of three such huts (see also CL010-064094- and CL010-064097-) against the inside of the outer wall and described as ‘roughly constructed’.
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).
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.