Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Ryves Castle, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ryves Castle
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41952, -8.36579
- SMR number
- LI041-046----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 300m to NW. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Monument visible as a raised roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 12m) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Outline of earthwork clearly visible on aerial photograph (ASIAP 342, 10).
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and ASIAP aerial image.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 4 August 2021
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 342/12 on 05/01/2003.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.