Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curryaun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curryaun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90474, -8.89213
- SMR number
- MA072-059----
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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
In pasture, located on top of a ridge at the W end, with a steep fall of ground to N and E and a more gradual undulating slope at S.
Roughly circular (diam. c. 25m) earthen platform defined by a scarp (H 1-1.2m at NW), which is incorporated into later field fences at N and S, and skirted by a farm trackway at W. The interior appears to be level. The rath is engulfed in a dense, impenetrable thicket of blackthorn, which impeded inspection.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 5 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.