Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curry (macmanus) (kilmaine By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curry (macmanus) (kilmaine By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.74793, -9.13099
- SMR number
- MA100-031----
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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, atop knoll. Circular area (39m N-S; 37m E-W), enclosed by remains of two earthen banks with intervening fosse (D 0.8m). Inner bank (H 1.6m), fosse and outer bank (H 1.2m) survive NE to E and SE to W. Possible entrance on E (Wth 2.9m). Interior and bank in N have been quarried. Marshy ground to W.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 153.
Date of upload: 24 January 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.