Benisonlodge Or Bratty

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Benisonlodge Or Bratty, from 26 m² to 498,219 m² (49.82 ha, 123.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Benisonlodge Or Bratty in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 19 Feb 2018Conditional

  construction of three bell mouth entrances A, B and C onto public roads to facilitate access to forestry plantations together with internal access roads and turning heads and all associated site works.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 186059

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Benisonlodge Or Bratty.

Recorded monuments

• WM007-033 Ringfort - rath
  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

• WM007-033001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated on a low rise in pasture-land on the landscaped demesne lands of Benison Lodge 500m to SW. Ringfort (WM007-033----) 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. Remains of a rectangular house site (approx. dims. 6m NE-SW x 5m NW-SE) visible in the NW quadrant of a ringfort (WM007-033----). It is possible that this building may be the remains of a post-1700 summer house associated with Benison Lodge. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 12 April 2017

• WM007-034 Ringfort - rath
  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

• WM007-053 Ringfort - rath
  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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Benisonlodge Or Bratty.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

No address of the register names Benisonlodge Or Bratty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Benisonlodge Or Bratty

Area

1,818,174 m² (181.82 ha, 449.28 acres)

Civil parish

St. Feighins, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Faughalstown, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Curraghboy, Deerpark, Gillardstown, Kinturk Demesne, Milltown

Placenames

Benisonlodge Or Bratty on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.