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Designed landscape - tree-ring

Ryves Castle, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - tree-ring, Ryves Castle, County Limerick, 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
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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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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

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

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