Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mountmusic, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountmusic
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1904)
- Coordinates
- 51.85997, -8.97898
- SMR number
- CO082-028----
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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 NW-facing slope of Mullaghroe Hill. Circular raised area (34m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (max. int. H 1.9m; ext. H 2.2m); external fosse (D 0.9m) SSE->WSW. Break (Wth 4m) in bank to N; drop of 1m from interior to exterior in gap faced with large boulders. Scatter of boulders outside bank to NNE, some well embedded in bank face. Fosse used as dump for field clearance material. Faint trace of cultivation ridges crosses interior on N-S axis; large stone protrudes above ground near centre of interior. Standing stone (CO082-030----) 60m to SSW; ringfort (CO082-026----) visible on high ground to NW.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.