Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Curragh Lower, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curragh Lower
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.13614, -7.76099
- SMR number
- OF031-036----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture on low-lying poorly drained land with river immediately to the S. Raised rectangular area (41m N-S; 56m E-W; H 0.5m) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.9m) with no evidence of an entrance feature. Inner bank (Wth 1m; ext. H 1.4m; int. H 0.5m) and outer bank levelled at S but survives on other sides (int. H 1.4m; ext. H 0.9m; Wth 5m). Possible moated site.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.