Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Curry, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curry
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.72121, -7.33230
- SMR number
- WM003-031----
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in grassland on rise of ground. Outline of earthwork visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Circular-shaped earthwork depicted on 1st. ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as a circular-shaped earthwork transected at NE by a field boundary running NW-SE. Depicted on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map as a semi-circular shaped area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a ditch transected at E by a field boundary running NW-SE. Earthwork shown on the OSi 25-inch map as a D-shaped slightly raised area defined by a scarp, ditch and outer bank transected at E by a field boundary running NW-SE
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 14 August 2023
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.