Ballyallaban
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Ballyallaban ( Irish Baile Albóin ) is one of the few ring forts in the Burren in County Clare in Ireland that is not a dun . It is entered on the maps of the Burren as An Rath . The majority of the plants in the Burren are referred to with the local generic term Caher for Duns, some also with "Lios" (Anglicised: Lis) for Raths. It is an Irish national monument .
The fort is just off the R480 road between Ballyvaughan and Leamaneh Castle. The ring fort is in good condition with an inner diameter of about 30.0 m (60.0 m including the moat), although trees grow on much of the structure. The ramparts were built with the excavation of the moat, which still fills with water after a rain. The wall was originally higher and the moat deeper than it is today. The dam was probably crowned by a wooden palisade.
The Ballyallaban Council is one of the most common types of monuments in ancient Ireland. Estimates vary, but 30,000 seems like an accepted figure. In County Clare, 224 are preserved. The approximately one hundred ring forts excavated resulted in dates that stretch from the late Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages . Most of them date to the early Christian period.
Ballyallaban is a particularly well-kept, fairly manageable and well-preserved example with a diameter of 25 to 30 m. The steep earth wall was built from the excavation of the deep trench, which fills with water in wet weather. It is unclear when the unexcavated complex had a palisade.
It is a national monument. There is a porthole at the neighboring farm .
literature
- George Cunningham: Burren Journey . Ballyvaughan 1993 (reprint).
- Peter Harbison : Guide to the Naional Monuments in the Republic of Ireland Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1992 ISBN 0-7171-1956-4 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 24 ″ N , 9 ° 9 ′ 31 ″ W.