Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Tullassa, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullassa
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cave
- Coordinates
- 52.85239, -9.08192
- SMR number
- CL033-051003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated towards the centre of a rath (CL033-051----) at the N edge of a plateau. A length of open passage (dims. 4.8m E-W; 2.1m N-S) turns N at its W end, where it is partly roofed (L c. 1m) before becoming blocked. Another souterrain (CL033-051002-) is in the perimeter of the rath to the W.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 31 May 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.