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Ryves Castle, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, 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
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.42337, -8.36491
SMR number
LI041-057----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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 modern forestry plantation immediately S of a watercourse, on the demesne lands associated with Ryves Castle (LI041-021----), located 400m to SW. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Monument visible as a curvilinear-shaped cropmark on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (342) 11) taken 05-01-2003. Visible as an irregular-shaped area (dims. c. 60m NW-SE; 30m N-S) enclosed by a fosse on Google Earth orthoimage dated 05/05/2002. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019.

See attached oblique aerial image (ASIAP (342) 11) and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 4 August 2021

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

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

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