Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gerrib Big, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gerrib Big
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.24787, -8.69752
- SMR number
- SL013-060----
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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 on very slight S-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Raised, roughly circular area (39m E-W; 36m N-S) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.55m; int. H 0.55m). At the outer foot of the bank from SE-NW is a shallow fosse (Wth 2.8m; D 0.3m). Elsewhere this has been infilled but its outline is still identifiable. Break in bank at NE (Wth 4m) marks original entrance.
Compiled by: Mark Keegan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.