Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - fortified house
Currycahill, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Currycahill
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77500, -7.66432
- SMR number
- LF009-022----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a rise in pastureland overlooking a stream to the NW. A large, gable-fronted, two-storey building, within a square-shaped enclosure or bawn (LF009-022003-), is depicted on the Down Survey (1655-6) map of Clonbroney parish (NLI, MS 719). Described in 1986 (SMR file) as a level platform on the brow of a low hill bounded by a scarp on the NW, N and E. No visible surface trace of the house survived. Archaeological testing carried out in 2004 to the NE revealed no evidence of any settlement of 17th-century date (Halpin 2007, 250).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 20 September 2012
References
NLI, MS 719 - National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey of Co. Longford attested by W. Petty under date 1657. Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 22 maps with accompanying terriers, 1786-7. Dublin.
Halpin, E. 2007 Ballinalee or St Johnstone. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 250. Dublin. Wordwell.
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Cultivation ridgesunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.