Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
Cloonconeen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonconeen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.58436, -9.72588
- SMR number
- CL072-033----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Built on sloping bedrock on the foreshore at Cloonconeen Point, just E of Rinevella Bay, 2.3km SW of Carrigaholt. A large subrectangular fish trap defined by a stone wall (c. 117m E-W; c. 92m N-S) built on natural bedrock extending eastwards into the bay (pers. comm. M. Gibbons, 30 November 2018). At E (the trap end) the wall extends N-S and veers back SW at the SE end. Midway along the relatively straight seaward side there is an outwardly curving semicircle (c. 17m N-S) with a gap in the middle. At the NE corner the wall extends out in a V shape. This is a post-medieval example and was probably in use within the last 50 years. This feature is visible on historical Google Earth aerial photographs taken on 22 April 2015 (accessed 3 December 2018).
Revised by: Mary Tunney
Date of revision: 5 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.