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Ballylin
Limerick, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR0680
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0680 (680)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Limerick
- Historic county
- Limerick
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballylin
- Latitude
- 52.50203
- Longitude
- -9.09365
- Altitude
- 243 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 20 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 7.2 ha, 20 ha
- Footprint
- 20.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
- Water source
- spring and pool
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1981); Other (1981); Geophysical Survey (2012); Excavation (2012)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database LI028-085
- National record
- record LI 028
- Wikidata
- Q31071127
Sources
References
- Cody, E. 1981. A hillfort at Ballylin, county Limerick with a note on Mooghaun, county Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Vol.110, Elo Press Ltd. Dublin. 70 _ 80.
- O'Brien, W. 2012. Unpublished excavation report: Ballylin, Co. Limerick. UCC Cork, Dept of Archaeology.
- O'Driscoll, J. 2012. Unpublished geophysical survey report: Ballylin, Co. Limerick. UCC Cork, Dept of Archaeology.