Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Benisonlodge, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Benisonlodge
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.65525, -7.28062
- SMR number
- WM007-034----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the crest of a steep prominent ridge in undulating pasture-land. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a sub-circular enclosure intersected by post-1700 field boundaries at N, SSE and SSW. On the revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map the enclosure is depicted as a sub-rectangular shaped field intersected by post-1700 field boundary ay S and W. Visible as tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Present remains consist of a sub-circular shaped slightly raised area (approx. diam. 30m N-S; 19m E-W ) defined by a poorly preserved earthen bank and shallow fosse visible from N-E-SE only. Intersected by field boundaries at W & S. Possible entrance gap at SE (Wth 1.7m). The raised interior slopes from S to N. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running E-W across the surface of the interior.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 6 March 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.