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Weir - fish

Islandmacloughry,Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Weir - fish, Islandmacloughry, Listowel, County Kerry, 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
Islandmacloughry,Listowel
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Old Weir
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.44098, -9.48917
SMR number
KE010-082----

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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

Annotated 'Old Weir' on the 1841 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is shown crossing the River Feale from the S bank of Islandmacloughry (Oileán Mhic Luachra/Mac Loughrey's Island) to the middle of the River Feale which marks the townland boundary with Listowel. Listowel Castle (KE010-059----) and mill site (KE010-083----) 385m to the N. This 'Old Weir' may have been the site of the 'Fishery' mentioned in 1303-04. A second 'Old Weir' on the River Feale lies 230m to the SE in the townland of Ballygrenane. The Plea Roll of 32 Edward I, 1303-4 recorded that 'Sibilla, widow of Maurice son of Thomas, seeks against Nicholas son of Maurice one third of a house [KE010-059----], watermill [KE010-083----], lands (1,060 acres) and rent in Lystothyl (Listowel) in Altry, and of the fishery [KE010-082----] of the river Feer (Feale) in the same vill, and the third part of a house and lands (2,400 acres) and rent in Viale [Beale KE002-001001-] de Kyllesshene, as her dower' (Orpen 1924-5, 36). No surface remains visible at the location marked on the six-inch OSi map, however a stone weir is visible 80m to the N on Digital Globe orthophotos taken between 2011-13.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 14 September 2022

References

Orpen, G. H. 1924-5 The Origin of the Fitzmaurices, Barons of Kerry and Lixnaw. The Genealogists' Magazine Vol.1, 9-14, 34-37, 69-70.

Nearby in the register

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

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