Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Rylanes (connello Upper By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rylanes (connello Upper By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923).
- Coordinates
- 52.47802, -8.85909
- SMR number
- LI029-111----
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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
In pasture, on NW shoulder of valley; terrain slopes away sharply to S into valley. Roughly circular steep-sided flat topped (diam. c. 3m) earthen mound (H 7.75m; Base diam. c. 40m), with external fosse (D c. 2.2m; Base Wth 2.25m) and counterscarp bank (ext. H 0.25m) SE-NW. Fosse crossed by causeway (Wth 7m) at W. SE side of mound has been quarried leaving profile of that side very uneven; N side is covered in dense overgrowth of trees and bushes. Field boundary abuts base of mound to NW, then skirts around base of mound to SE where it travels away to SE; field boundary covered by dense overgrowth of bushes where it skirts mound. L-shaped section of mortared stone wall (H c. 1.6m) built into face of mound at W.This is probably site referred to by Molony (1905, 260) as 'a tumulus unexplored, popularly known as the Odell Banshee Mound'.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Molony, H. 1905 Ancient Churches and Topography of Ballingarry Parish, County Limerick. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 35, 255-63.
Nearby in the register
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- Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regularunder 1 mi
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- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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