Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
Lissan West,River Fergus, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissan West,River Fergus
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.79610, -8.96165
- SMR number
- CL041-181002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the west bank of the Fergus estuary, adjacent to Lissan West townland. An alignment of at least 20 wooden posts (L 8m) of varying diameters and height, with narrower roundwood poles and branches in between, all angled to the NW against the force of the ebbing tide. This possibly represents a post-medieval fish-trap. (O’Sullivan 2001, Fergus estuary west 3, 219, 297)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 20 July 2016
References
O'Sullivan, A. 2001 Foragers, farmers and fishers in a coastal landscape. Discovery Programme Monograph No. 5
Nearby in the register
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.