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Weir - fish

Bunratty West,River Shannon, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Weir - fish, Bunratty West, River Shannon, 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
Bunratty West,River Shannon
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.68315, -8.82040
SMR number
CL061-013003-

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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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the N bank of the Shannon estuary adjacent to Bunratty West townland. Described by O’Sullivan (2001, 299) as medieval ‘Post-and-wattle fences (Bunratty 6.1) and basket (Bunratty 6.2) of V-shaped fishtrap. Fence oriented N-S, 10-22m long, constructed of rows of vertical posts, laid brushwood, post-and-wattle panels and oblique braces. Basket 4.1m long, 88cm wide at mouth and 35cm at end. Hazel rod radiocarbon-dated to 820 +/- 35 BP (AD 1164-1279; GrN-21934). Excavated February 1997; revisited March 1999. Site location estimated.' (O'Sullivan 2001, 164-76, 299, Bunratty 6)

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

Nearby in the register

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

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