Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ummera (mohill By.), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ummera (mohill By.)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91270, -7.95359
- SMR number
- LE032-079----
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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
Situated in pasture towards the bottom of a W-facing slope, with the headwaters of a small canalised S-N stream c. 50m to the W. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Fort’ and it is depicted as a hachured D-shaped enclosure whose perimeter is incorporated into a field bank SW-N on the 1945 revision. No archaeological features is visible at ground level, but it is probably a rath.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 15 December 2011
Amended: 6 December, 2019
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.