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Weir - fish

Carrowbane (Clonderalaw By.),River Shannon, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Weir - fish, Carrowbane, 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
Carrowbane (Clonderalaw By.),River Shannon
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.63218, -9.30327
SMR number
CL068-061----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the N bank of the Shannon estuary adjacent to Carrwobane townland in Clonderlaw Bay. Described by O’Sullivan (2001, 312) as a ‘tick-shaped head weir at LWM in estuarine clays on S bank of channel in middle of Clonderlaw Bay. Two converging fences of vertical roundwood posts and split stakes. Shore fence oriented NE-SW, 20m long, with posts and stakes 8-13m in diameter, spaced at 30-50cm intervals and standing to heights of 40cm. Flood fence 10m long. Radiocarbon-dated to 250 +/- 30 BP (cal. AD 1522-1941; GrN-20144). July 1992.' (O'Sullivan 2001, 312, Clonderlaw Bay 3)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 28 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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