Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Curryaun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curryaun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.90519, -8.88897
- SMR number
- MA072-060----
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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 a dense thicket of blackthorn and brambles, located on a hill.
This enclosure is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch maps as a D-shaped embanked enclosure (c. 35m E−W; c. 20m N−S) bordered on the straight side to S by a road, probably representing the N half of an originally circular enclosure, the S half of which was truncated by the road. It is not shown on later map editions.
The location of the enclosure is at least partly encompassed within a sub-rectangular field (c. 30m N–S; c. 25m E−W) enclosed by a stone field fence; this field is engulfed in impenetrable overgrowth and could not be inspected examined. There is no visible trace of the enclosure in either of the adjoining fields to W and E.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 6 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.