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Weir - fish

Ballygirreen,River Fergus, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Weir - fish, Ballygirreen, River Fergus, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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