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
- 52.67146, -8.81499
- SMR number
- LI004-031003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In esturine clays on W bank of River Maigue, immediately NW of weir (LI004-03102-). Described by O'Sullivan (2001, 217 & 310) as 'post-and-wattle, oriented NW-SE, composed of large poles (4cm in diameter) with interwoven wattle rods (2cm in diameter) exposed over an area measuring 5m by 2m.' Exact function unknown but probably part of fish-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.