Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
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
- 53.01714, -9.06356
- SMR number
- CL010-269----
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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
Just c. 12m SE of NW-facing inland cliffs named 'Scalpduff' on the 1916 OS 6-inch map and c. 470m NE of Cahercommaun fort (CL010-064003-). Within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL010-064001-). A subrectangular enclosure (c. 43m NE-SW; c. 25m NW-SE) defined by a stone wall and visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and on OSi MapGenie orthophotography (2013-2018). A house site (CL010-069001-) lies in the NE interior and several small pens are in the SW interior against the perimeter with another in the NE corner and one on the NE exterior. Two cashels (CL010-064085- and CL010-064067-) lie c. 140m to the SE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 16 August 2023
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.