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Weir - fish

Cloonconeen, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Weir - fish, Cloonconeen, 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
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----

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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

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

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

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