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Cave

Tullycommon, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cave, 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
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.01636, -9.07445
SMR number
CL010-229----

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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 a limestone cliff in a karst valley some 280m NW of Cahercommaun cashel (CL010-064003-) in an area of hazel scrub. Two short open-ended lengths of fossil cave passages oriented N-S (total L 15m; max. Wth 2.5m; max. H 1.5m), the most southern of which has evidence of drystone walling constructed at both ends and possibly delimiting a chamber. At the N end the walling is just under the overhanging roof while at the S end the wall is set back c. 1m from the cave wall. A pit in the floor of the cave shows an upper layer (D 0.3m) of silty organic material overlying a sterile grey material. Glencurran cave (CL010-054----) lies c. 570m to the SW. (SMR file; pers. comm. Colin Bunce, 28 June 2015, Dr. Marion Dowd, 28 June 2015)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on details provided by Colin Bunce and Dr. Marion Dowd, Institute of Technology, Sligo.

Date of upload: 30 June 2015

Nearby in the register

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

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