Ballyfounder Rath is the remains of a

ringfort Ringforts, ring forts or ring fortresses are circular fortified settlements that were mostly built during the Bronze Age up to about the year 1000. They are found in Northern Europe, especially in Ireland. There are also many in South Wales ...

situated on the Ards Peninsula, in

County Down County Down () is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. It covers an area of and has a population of 531,665. It borders County Antrim to the ...

, Northern Ireland. It consists of a circular mound about 20m in diameter, with traces of an outer bank and ditch. It is a Scheduled Historic Monument and is at grid ref: J6207 4954.

References

{{reflist Archaeological sites in County Down