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
- 51.85616, -8.97113
- SMR number
- CO082-031----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on lower SE-facing slope of Mullaghroe Hill. Circular area (33m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by earthen bank (H 1.4m) N->E with external fosse (D 0.6m); scarp (H 2.25m) E->SSW; low grass-covered rise (max. H 0.6m) elsewhere. Bank incorporated into field fence system. Interior slopes gently down to SE.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.