Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curry (roscommon By., Elia Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curry (roscommon By., Elia Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.84027, -8.04744
- SMR number
- RO017-189----
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
On the crest of a low NW-SE drumlin ridge. Circular grass-covered but poached area (diam. 33m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by an earthen bank and hedge (Wth 3.1m at E to 4.7m at W; int. H 0.4m at S to 1.1m at N and W; ext. H 1.2m at E to 1.4m at S), and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.4-5.7m; Wth of base 2.8m at W to 3.6m at E; D 0.6m), which is used as a farm track circumscribed by a field bank W-N-E. There is an entrance (Wth 2m), but no causeway, at ENE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.