Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
Ballynacally,river Fergus, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacally,river Fergus
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.70790, -9.06244
- SMR number
- CL050-085----
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
Described by O’Sullivan et al. (2010) as follows: ‘The remains of a possible fishweir are located on the bank of a creek on the foreshore of Ballynacally townland, near LWM. The ruins of Paradise House are situated to the W. The remains consist of seven stakes clustered together over an area c. 1.5m wide. The stakes were of various heights, the tallest being c. 0.5m. A sample was not taken as the mudflats here were too soft to walk on.’ (O’Sullivan et al. 2010, Appendix 1, 64, Ballynacally 1)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 9 October 2019
References
O'Sullivan, A., Dillon, M., Sands, R., McDermott, C., Shaw, R., Devlin, G. 2010 The Fergus Estuary and Islands: discovering a maritime historic landscape in Co. Clare. Report to the Heritage Council. University College Dublin, School of Archaeology in association with the Discovery Programme.
Nearby in the register
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.