Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
Ballyvelaghan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvelaghan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15646, -9.07814
- SMR number
- CL003-054----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on an intertidal shelf immediately off shore c. 100m W of New Quay Harbour. A fish trap (L 105m; Wth c. 40m at W, narrowing to 14m at the E end), defined by the remains of stone walls (pers. comm. Michael Gibbons, 19 November 2018). This feature is clearly visible on a historical Google Earth aerial image taken on 31 January 2006 (accessed 3 December 2018). At W the wall is curved inwards in a reverse C shape (towards the E). The walls at N and S extending from the points of the ‘C’ are uneven and follow a wavy line to a rectangular trap at E (c. 8m x 9m).
Revised by: Mary Tunney
Date of revision: 5 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.