Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.36191, -6.24243
- SMR number
- DU018-022002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
American Geographical Society Library, UW-MilwaukeeLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1900 · Large scale plan of Dublin. (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library)
- 1908 · Dublin, Ireland 1908 (American Geographical Society Library, UW-Milwaukee)
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The National Monuments Service's description
There is a tradition that the Battle of Clontarf or the 'Battle of the Fishing Weir of Clontarf' took place at a fishing weir approximately on the site of Ballybough Bridge (Went 1946, 177). It was reputedly fashioned from stakes and wattle. There is no visible surface trace. For the battle of Clontarf see DU019-020----.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Revised by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 18 February 2018
References
Went, A.E.J. 1946 Irish fishing weirs I. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 76, 176-95.
Nearby in the register
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.