Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ummera (muskerry East By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ummera (muskerry East By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.89967, -8.92549
- SMR number
- CO071-053----
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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
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Depictd as roughly circular area (diam c. 35m) on 1842, 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; bank survives as low rise enclosing circular area (diam. 35.3m). According to Hartnett (1939, 108), fort oval in plan and originally double-ramparted with outer rampart levelled except to E, where earth and stone bank ran outside fosse; entrance to NE. Outer bank described by Hartnett (ibid.) appears to befield boundary to E of enclosure which curves to respect site.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.