Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortnalibbert, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnalibbert
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.27951, -8.12169
- SMR number
- LE012-021----
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 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in low-lying marshy grassland on the W bank of the S-N Scardan River with the stream c. 70-100m to the E. This is a grass-covered D-shaped area (int. dims 28m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by a large, round-topped, overgrown, earthen bank (Wth 5.4m; int. H 0.45m at W to 1.2m at E) which is truncated by a farm track and field bank at S. The entrance (Wth 3m) is at NE and an L-shaped hollow (D 0.5m) covering much of the interior may be a destroyed souterrain.
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.
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.