Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
Portdrine,River Shannon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portdrine,River Shannon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.67848, -8.74481
- SMR number
- CL062-045002-
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
On the N bank of the Shannon estuary adjacent to the townland of Portdrine. Described by O’Sullivan (2001, 305) as a post-medieval or possibly medieval ‘post alignment, oriented NE-SW, 35m long, appears to converge with the SE end of O’Brien’s Point 1 [CL062-045001-] below LWM. March 1999.' (O'Sullivan 2001, 208-9, 305, O’Brien’s Point 2)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 21 August 2019
References
O'Sullivan, A. 2001 Foragers, farmers and fishers in a coastal landscape. Discovery Programme Monograph No. 5
Nearby in the register
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Pier/Jettyunder 1 mi
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.