Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Curry (kirwan), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curry (kirwan)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74558, -9.12788
- SMR number
- MA100-033001-
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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 centre of ringfort (MA100-033----). L-shaped; two stone built chambers roofed with capstones. Entrance (H 0.5m; Wth 0.7m) opens into Chamber 1 (L 4.4m; Wth 0.9m; H 1.4m), orientated NW-SE. Constructed of several courses of dry-stone walling, roofed by six lintels resting on projecting corbelling. Chamber 2 (L 7.5m; Wth 3.1m; H 3m), orientated NE-SW, accessed through small doorway constructed of two jambs and a lintel.
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. 514.
Date of upload: 24 January 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.