Designed landscape in Ryves Castle, County Limerick

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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.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI041-018

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Earthwork in Ryves CastleEarthwork · 156 ydTom: I’m here to help · Computer-made picture. It does not show this monument.

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