What is recorded here

Currycahill held a large two-storey fortified house inside a square bawn, visible on the 1655-6 Down Survey but erased from the land before modern testing. The house may have watched the stream below, sheltered people, or vanished after conflict, rot and reuse. Its absence is not emptiness; it is a reminder that strong local places can disappear without announcement.

On a rise in pastureland overlooking a stream to the NW. A large, gable-fronted, two-storey building, within a square-shaped enclosure or bawn (LF009-022003-), is depicted on the Down Survey (1655-6) map of Clonbroney parish (NLI, MS 719). Described in 1986 (SMR file) as a level platform on the brow of a low hill bounded by a scarp on the NW, N and E. No visible surface trace of the house survived. Archaeological testing carried out in 2004 to the NE revealed no evidence of any settlement of 17th-century date (Halpin 2007, 250). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 20 September 2012

Built by an unknown local proprietor in the 17th century, the fortified house at Currycahill is significant as an example of early defensive domestic architecture in the region, reflecting the turbulent political and social conditions of the time.

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