Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mill - 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
- SMR number
- LI041-073----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a medieval mill in the townland of Ballyscaddan now Ryves Castle has not been identified. In 1655 the Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that John FitzGibbon of Ballyscaddan, an Irish papist was the owner of Ballyscaddan 'whereon stands a Castle [LI041-021----] out of Repaire and a Mill seate' (Simington 1938, 233).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 August 2021
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1938 The civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IV: county of Limerick, with a section of Clanmaurice barony Co. Kerry. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.