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Designed landscape feature

Rochfort Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland

The record

Townland
Rochfort Demesne
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.47221, -7.37054
SMR number
WM026-048----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 in landscaped garden to immediate rear of Tudenham Park, c. 250m to E of Lough Ennell. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a small circular-shaped feature in the centre of a rectangular-shaped sunken garden. A second similar feature is depicted on this map, c. 55m to NE, a third feature lies c. 400m to SW. A fourth similar feature is depicted c. 550m to NE and forms part of the designed landscape of Belvidere House. Monument described in 1978 as a roughly circular-shaped man-made mound of earth and stone (overall diam. 12m). The mound has fairly steep sides (H. c. 1.75m) and a perfectly level flat top with a single tree planted on it. This monument has a fresh and relatively unweathered appearance and for this reason and its location, is likely to be part of a designed landscape associated with Tudenahm Park (formerly Rochfort House) than an earlier antiquity.

Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.

Date of upload: 02 October 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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