Weir - fish

The National Monuments Service's description

The precise location of the 'Eel weir of Callaghbeolane' on the River Shannon that was mentioned in the 1654-56 Civil Survey of Co Limerick has not been identified (Mac Spealáin 1942, 99). The weir was located in close proximity to Athlunkard Bridge. The eel weir is depicted on the 17th century Down Survey map of St Patrick's Parish (NLI, MS 718). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Sir Nicholas Comyn, Sir Geoffrey Gallway & George Creagh fiz Richard of Limerick were the owners of 'The South one halfe of the Eeleweare of Callaghbeolane mearing on the north with ye other halfe of the said weare belonging to the Earle of Thomond on the East wth the River of Shannon and land of Longford [Athlunkard] being in ye County of Clare' (Simington 1938, 482).

See attached Down Survey map of the parish of St. Patrick's which shows the traversing the River Shannon at Corbally.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 8 June 2020

References

Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1938 The civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IV: county of Limerick, with a section of Clanmaurice barony Co. Kerry. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.

NLI, MS 718 - National Library of Ireland, Parish maps with terriers, showing forfeited lands in County Limerick, commonly known as the "Down Survey", executed under the direction of Sir William Petty, 1657, and copied by Daniel O'Brien, 1786.

Mac Spealáin, G. 1942 Notes on the Place-names in the City and Liberties of Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, 98-117.