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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
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.64959, -7.28764
SMR number
WM007-053----

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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 small natural hillock in gently undulating pasture-land. Ringfort (WM007-052---) 330m to SW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped ringfort intersected at NE by a field fence running NW-SE. Depicted on the 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map as an irregular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 38m N-S; 40m E-W). Present remains consist of a site that has been almost completely levelled, with only a poorly preserved earthen bank and steep fosse visible from NE-E-ESE. The fosse appears to have been re-cut in modern times.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

See attached section of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI in 1975.

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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