Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
Ballygirreen,river Fergus, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygirreen,river Fergus
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78063, -8.94493
- SMR number
- CL042-151----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the E bank of the upper Fergus estuary adjacent to Ballygirreen townland. Described by O’Sullivan (2001, 296) as an early historic ‘Post-and-wattle fence in estuarine clays at LWM, oriented ENE-WSW, 8.2m long, of 25 vertical roundwood stakes (2-3cm in diameter) with narrow interwoven rods (1.7-1.9cm). Post-and -wattle panels lie in muds at the WSW end. Radiocarbon-dated to 1495 +/- 35 BP (cal. AD 442-644; GrN-20139). Planned July 1992; revisited May 1995.' (O'Sullivan 1993-4, 52-61; O'Sullivan 2001, 138-144, 296, Fergus estuary 2)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 19 August 2019
References
O'Sullivan, A. 2001 Foragers, farmers and fishers in a coastal landscape. Discovery Programme Monograph No. 5
O'Sullivan, A. 1993-4 An early historic period fishweir on the Fergus Estuary, Co. Clare. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 35, 52-61.
Nearby in the register
- Post row - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Pier/Jettyunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.