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Hut site

Tullycommon, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, Tullycommon, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Tullycommon
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Carn (1916)
Coordinates
53.02261, -9.06620
SMR number
CL010-070002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 the highest point of a NE-SW ridge in pasture, commanding wide views. Hachured as a rath on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Hachured as a mound and labelled ‘Carn’ on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Cairn’ in the RMP (1996). This subcircular hut site (int. diam. 8m; ext. dims. 15m N-S; 12m E-W) is defined by a bank (Wth 2-5m; int. H 0.2m; max. int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.6-1.2m) of earth and stone, with two slabs (H 0.3m) set on edge at the NE marking an inner revetment (H 0.3m). A low modern wall extending NNW-SSE just outside the bank at the W may incorporate part of a possible outer revetment. There are loose stones in the interior. There is a megalithic structure (CL010-070001-) c. 40m to the SW.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 23 May 2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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