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Ringfort - rath

Benisonlodge, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Benisonlodge, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Benisonlodge
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined
Coordinates
53.65629, -7.28496
SMR number
WM007-033----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a low rise in pasture-land on the landscaped demesne lands of Benison Lodge 500m to SW. Ringfort which appears to have been converted into a tree-ring in the post 1700 period as part of the landscaping of the lands around Benison Lodge. An oval-shaped area (dims. 30m NE-SW; 22m NW-SE) enclosed by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank, shallow fosse from NNE-E-SE and elsewhere by a narrow ledge, with an outer earthen bank at NE. A tree-covered outer bank of earth and stone encloses this monument at an average distance of 15m which appears to be the result of post-1700 landscaping when the ringfort was converted into a tree-ring. The interior of the ringfort rises towards the centre, and has traces of cultivation ridges which run NE-SW. Remains of a rectangular house site (WM007-033001-) visible in the NW quadrant.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 12 April 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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