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
- 53.90903, -8.88245
- SMR number
- MA072-062----
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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 rough pasture, located on a rise, overlooked by a higher hill at ESE. There is a ruined vernacular cottage immediately to N, and the surrounding farmland is largely under forestry.
Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure (diam. 15-20m); not shown on later map editions.
A slightly raised area (max. dim. c. 24m) defined at W–N by a curving, apparently natural slope (H c. 3m at N) and bordered to E and S by field fences may indicated the location of the enclosure, but no enclosing bank/scarp is evident. The centre of this area is raised slightly higher than the rest, with an uneven ground surface strewn with a number of boulders.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 6 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.