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
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.02564, -9.05753
- SMR number
- CL010-064100-
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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
Within a rectangular cashel (CL010-064014-) on an elevated plateau of winter pasture, with slightly higher ground from N to NE and within a large field system (CL010-064001-). A collapsed ‘cave’ leading from the N side of the house site (CL010-064015-) in the E sector of the cashel. Depicted as extending under a rectangular slab (Westropp (1905, 221).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 27 September 2021
References
Westropp, T. J. 1905 Prehistoric remains (Forts and Dolmens) along the borders of Burren, in the county of Clare. Part 1 – The Eastern Border. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 35, 205-29.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.