What is recorded here
Currycreaghan holds a broad earthen ring on a sunny slope, its low bank encircling bare rock and grass. Cattle still walk the field above it, unaware that they graze a forgotten chamber where human hands once shaped stone and soil. The missing ditch and outer bank have vanished under plough and time, leaving only the main circle to mark the boundary between the living world and the fairy realm.
On a gentle S-facing slope in pasture. A slightly raised subcircular area (c. 59m NW-SE; c. 55m NE-SW) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.5-3.5m; H 0.3-0.5m). Drystone masonry, of relatively modern date, is visible on the outer face of the bank at N. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded an external fosse and fragmentary traces of an outer bank, both of which have since been levelled. It also noted that the original entrance was at SE. Outcropping rock is evident within the interior.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 3 December 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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