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Cumber Lower
Offaly, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0696
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0696 (696)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Offaly
- Historic county
- Offaly
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cumber Lower
- Latitude
- 53.08238
- Longitude
- -7.69885
- Altitude
- 337 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 11.87 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 2.36 ha, 11.87 ha
- Footprint
- 12.19 ha
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1875); Other (1906)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database OF036-062001
- National record
- record OF 036
- Wikidata
- Q31082024
Sources
References
- O'Brien, C. and Sweetman, D. 1997. Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly. Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
- Cooke, T. 1875. The Early History of the Town of Birr, or Parsonstown. Robertson and Co., Dublin.