Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Ryves Castle, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ryves Castle
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.41880, -8.37527
- SMR number
- LI041-018----
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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 the demesne lands associated with Ryves Casle (LI041-021----), located 450m to NE. Depicted as a tree-planted earthwork or possible tree-ring on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped tree-planted area (diam. c. 32m) intersected at E and W by field boundaries. Monument visible as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork on Google Earth orthoimages. Not depicted as an antiquity on any ed. OSi historic maps. Probable tree-ring of post-1700 date on the demesne lands of Ryves Castle.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 13 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.