Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
Limerick City, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Limerick City
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.66842, -8.62653
- SMR number
- LI005-110----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
According to O'Flaherty (2010, 2) 'the rapids at Curragour supported a fishery ... sufficiently well established to have been a bone of contention between church and state around 1200.'
Nearby in the register
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.