Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curry (Athlone South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curry (Athlone South By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.46512, -8.14765
- SMR number
- RO048-064----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a rise at the W edge of a broad low plateau. Irregularly-shaped, domed, grass-covered area (dims 58m E-W; 51m N-S) defined by a steep-sided earthen bank (Wth 4.9-5.1m; int. H 0.9-1m; ext. H 1.9-2.4m), with an outer fosse WSW-WNW (Wth of top 6.7m; Wth of base 1.8m; D 0.3m) and NNW-NE. There is a modernised entrance at ENE and lazy-beds in the interior, while the perimeter is quarried at SE. Rath (RO048-193----) is c. 220m to the SE.
See the attached views made by Markus Casey c. 2004
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.