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Weir - fish

Mellon, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Weir - fish, Mellon, County Limerick, 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
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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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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

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

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