Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
Bushy Island,River Shannon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bushy Island,River Shannon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.67521, -8.78918
- SMR number
- CL062-032005-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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. 280m E of Bush Island on the Shannon Estuary. Described by O’Sullivan (2001, 302) as a post-medieval ‘Large L-shaped structure (of post-and-wattle fence, vertical posts and downstream braces) immediately SW of Bush Island 13. Oriented N-S; flood fence 24m long, shore fence 105m long. Mouth faces upstream as ebb weir. July 2000.’ (O’Sullivan 2001, 206-7, 302, Bush Island 14)
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.