Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
Bunratty West,river Shannon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunratty West,river Shannon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.69034, -8.81272
- SMR number
- CL062-031001-
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 W bank of the River Owenagarney channel in the Shannon Estuary, 160m N of Little Quay Island. Described by O’Sullivan (2001, 298) as a possibly medieval ‘post-and-wattle fence (Bunratty 1.1), horizontal post-and-wattle panel (Bunratty 1.2) and vertical posts and horizontal branches in estuarine clays exposed below the mean LWM over an area measuring 10m (NE-SW) by 1m. February 1997.’ (O’Sullivan 2001, 151-4, 298, Bunratty 1)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 5 June 2019
References
O'Sullivan, A. 2001 Foragers, farmers and fishers in a coastal landscape. Discovery Programme Monograph No. 5
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.