Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curry (athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curry (athlone North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.59860, -8.09995
- SMR number
- RO042-010----
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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 a gentle N-facing slope on the flood-plain of the W-E Hind River, c. 200m to the N. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 30-35m) defined by an earthen bank (at ESE: Wth 6.2m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.95m), which is incorporated into a field bank SSW-N and overlain by traces of a stone wall at SE, and a flat-bottomed fosse (at ESE: Wth of top 5.5m; Wth of base 1.5m; D 0.9m). The entrance (Wth 3.2m) and causeway are at SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.