What is recorded here

Ummera held a double-ramparted fort with a northeast entrance, though ploughs and time erased most of the outer bank. The surviving inner circle measures thirty-five metres across a south-facing slope, waiting for imagination to complete what measurement stopped.

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

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