The townland of Ballenan is in the parish of Loughgilly in Armagh County. It is labelled number 1 on the map.

The Environment and Heritage Service Sites and Monuments Record (2002) notes the following in this townland:

Rath of the Early Christian Period.
SMR NO: ARM 018:029
Irish Grid Reference: J02853695
Townland: BALLENAN
CONDITION: traces only
Although it is possible to identify the roughly circular outline, very little of the site survives. Most of the W side has been obliterated by field boundaries, a trackway & general farm activity. To the N a hedge boundary has preserved the line of the perimeter, but apart from an overgrown & probably recut ditch 3.5m wide x 1.3m deep, it is doubfful whether any original features remain. The S side is just recognisable as a faint terrace in a cultivated field. The diam. is approx.29m.

Rath of the Early Christian Period.
SMR NO: ARM 018:030
Irish Grid Reference: J03403697
Townland: BALLENAN
CONDITION: substantial remains
The site is relatively well preserved within an oval field & is 29m NW-SE x 35m NE-SW. It is enclosed on the vulnerable NW side by a bank 2m high above the interior. This becomes less prominent to NE & SW but as the natural ground level falls, the perimeter is defined by an increasingly steep scarp. It seems that the site has been partly dug into the hillslope on NW & the SE half has been raised. At SE the interior stands c.2m above ground level. A gap in the bank at W may be original.

LINEAR EARTHWORKS of the Post-medieval Period
SMR NO: ARM 018:031
Irish Grid Reference: J03443687
Sitename: TYRONE'S DITCHES
Townland: BALLENAN
CONDITION: No visible remains
The feature marked on all editions of the OS 6" map as "Tyrone's Ditches" seemed in 1983 to be little more than a field division c.100m SE of a Rath [ARM 018:030]. It ran along the townland boundary, but the area has since been levelled & there are no visible remains. Bennet described ".. a ditch or trench cut by the Earl of Tyrone as a defence in the year 1660" Lewis recorded "... vestiges of the intrenchment surrounding the principal stronghold of the Earl of Tyrone during his wars with Elizabeth. "
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
LEWIS, S.1837, Vol. II, 472
O. S. FIELD REPORT NO.52, 12
O. S. MEM BALLYMORE: BENNET BOX 18, 2, 10

PRONI records: D.3533 (Account books of Rev. Alexander Savage, covenanting minister.); D.1166 (Title deeds re lands of Stewart family and map of Ballenan [1789].); MIC.38 (Session minutes, accounts, correspondence, etc., re Ballenan Reformed Presbyterian Church.); MIC.1C/16 (Records of Reformed Presbyterian Church.); MIC.1C/16 (Miscellaneous documents of Ballenan Reformed Presbyterian Church.); OS/6/2/17/1 (Surveyed 1835. Engraved 1835.); OS/6/2/17/2 (Surveyed 1835. Engraved 1835. Revised 1860. Engraved 1863.); OS/6/2/17/3 (Surveyed 1835. Revised 1906. Published 1908. Reprinted 1929, 1932.); OS/6/2/17/4 (Surveyed 1906. Revised 1954-5. Levelled 1889, 1892 and 1906. Published 1958 (2 copies).); OS/6/2/18/1 (Surveyed 1835. Engraved 1835.); OS/6/2/18/2 (Surveyed 1835. Engraved 1835. Revised 1860. Engraved 1863.); OS/6/2/18/3 (Surveyed 1835. Revised 1906. Published 1908.); OS/6/2/18/4 (Surveyed 1835. Revised 1906. Published 1908. (2 copies - 1st a reprint 1930, 1933 and 2nd reprint 1933, 1939, 1942, 1946, 1955.); OS/6/2/18/5 (Surveyed 1906. Revised 1954-5. Levelled 1892, 1901-2, 1904 and 1906. Published 1958 (2 copies).); OS/6/2/22/1 (Surveyed 1835. Engraved 1835.); OS/6/2/22/2 (Surveyed 1835. Engraved 1835. Revised 1861. Engraved 1863.); OS/6/2/22/3 (Surveyed 1835. Revised 1906. Published 1908 (2 copies - 1 reprint 1930 and 1 reprint 1930-1955.).); OS/6/2/22/4 (Surveyed 1906. Revised 1955. Levelled 1889 and 1906. Published 1959 (2 copies).); VAL/1B/219 (1st valuation records.); VAL/12B/15/10A, VAL/12B/15/23A, VAL/12B/15/23B, VAL/12B/15/23C, VAL/12B/15/23D, VAL/12B/15/23E (Valuation annual revision list.); VAL/2B/2/34C (Griffith valuation list.).