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Weir - fish
Barry (shrule By., Ballymahon Ed),barry (shrule By., Kilcommock Ed),corrabaun (shrule By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barry (shrule By., Ballymahon Ed),barry (shrule By., Kilcommock Ed),corrabaun (shrule By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF023-136----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A land grant to Gerald McRory Farrall in 1621 included the ‘castle [LF023-076----] and lands of Barry and Bunuvalla alias Cartrondrome and a water-mill [LF023-126] … and a fishing wear on the river Enny' (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 533). The precise location of the weir has not been identified but it may have been located along the river where it forms the W boundary of the townland of Corrabaun, which possibly means the ‘white weir’ (OSNB, Taghshinny parish, 1836-7, book 24, 447). Alternatively, it may have been in Barry (Kilcommock) or Barry (Ballymahon) townland as the river also flows through the village of Barry. In the 16th century Barry and Corrabaun are referred to as one townland in the rental book of the earl of Kildare, which records the ‘castel and lands of the Barrycoribane’ (Mac Niocaill 1992, 274).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload 2 October 2012
References
Mac Niocaill, G. (ed.) 1992 Crown surveys of lands, 1540-41: with the Kildare rental begun in 1518. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.