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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.46301, -8.15080
- SMR number
- RO048-186----
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
At the crest of a W-facing slope of a small N-S ridge. Oval grass-covered platform (dims 25m WNW-ESE; 19.5m NNE-SSW) defined by a small ravine at SW and by a low scarp (Wth 2.5-4.5m; H 0.85-0.95m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. It is overlain by a NNW-SSE relict field bank towards the perimeter at E. (Rath (RO048-065001-) is c. 50m to the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 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.