Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - regulating
Bestfield Or Dunganstown, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bestfield Or Dunganstown
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.86485, -6.93413
- SMR number
- CW002-015----
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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)
- 1799 · 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
An Inquisition of 1614 makes reference to a fishing weir in existence in Dunganstown in 1597. This was probably on the same site as the weir marked on the 1839 'OS 6-inch' map. (Went 1954, 234)
Reference:
Went A.E.J. 1954 'Notes on the Fisheries of the River Barrow' in The Journal of Kildare Archaeological Society Vol 13, 234.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 6 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.