Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
Mellon, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mellon
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.67078, -8.81497
- SMR number
- LI004-031002-
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In estuarine clays on W bank of River Maigue, c. 60m NW of similar weir (LI004-03101-). Described by O'Sullivan (2001, 216 & 310) as 'post alignment, oriented NE-SW, c. 30m long. Constructed of fifteen roundwood posts, 5-10cm in diameter, spaced at 0.5-1.8m intervals. This is probably a nineteenth-century stake-net weir'.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.