Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
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
- 52.42167, -8.37238
- SMR number
- LI041-047----
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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
Situated on the demesne lands of Ryves Castle which is built on the site of Castle Jane (LI041-047-----) located 130m to E. Ballyscaddan burial ground (LI041-019002-), known locally as Castle Jane graveyard, lies 130m to N. Identified as a potential site on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1:10,000 No. 76) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophotos or on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 4 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.