County: Down Site name: BALLYLESSANT td.; (‘Farrell’s Fort’)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Mr. A.E.P. Collins, Archaeological Survey of N. Ireland
Site type: Ringfort - unclassified
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 733422m, N 866097m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.525680, -5.938798
A very limited excavation was carried out on the east edge of this ring-work in April 1970. This was sufficient to show that these had been two periods of occupation, the second occurring after a heightening of the site by over one metre with clean boulder clay. There were few finds apart from a scatter of ‘Souterrain ware’ sherds in the later occupation levels.
For a site—plan, see ‘An Archaeological Survey of Co. Down' (Belfast 1966) p. 151
