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Weir - fish

Bush Island (Islands By.),River Shannon, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Weir - fish, Bush Island, 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
Bush Island (Islands By.),River Shannon
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.67584, -8.78912
SMR number
CL062-032004-

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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

Situated c. 260m E of Bush Island on the Shannon Estuary. Described by O’Sullivan (2001, 302) as a post-medieval ‘C-shaped post-and-wattle fence (double row of posts with downstream braces) on W bank of creek on upper foreshore, 50 to SW of Bush Island 12. Oriented E-W, 47m long; mouth faces upstream to catch fish on ebbing tide. A horizontal post-and-wattle panel (2m E-W, 1m N-S) is buried in clays 6m to E of fence. July 2000.’ (O’Sullivan 2001, 206, 302, Bush Island 13)

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

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

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