Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
Cloghleagh,clonroad Beg,lifford, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghleagh,clonroad Beg,lifford
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- CL033-082050-
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the time of the dissolution of the monasteries (1536-41) the property of Ennis Friary (CL033-082001-) was recorded as including ‘one salmon and one eel weir (CL033-082051-) on the River Fergus’ (Ó Dálaigh 2012, 3). References are also made to salmon and eel weirs on the River Fergus in 1570 and in 1585 in the Fiants of the Tudor sovereigns (Fiants, Eliz., 4738) and in 1621 in the Calendars of Patent Rolls (Cal. Pat. Rolls Ire., Jas I, 502) as cited by Ó Dálaigh (ibid., 16). The precise location of the weirs is unknown.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 9 July 2014
References
Ó Dálaigh, B. 2012 Irish Historic Towns Atlas, No. 25. Ennis. Royal Irish Academy. Dublin.