Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
Loghill (connello Lower By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loghill (connello Lower By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.59842, -9.19337
- SMR number
- LI009-020----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a sheltered cove, on mud flats at the confluence of the White River and the River Shannon at Loghill. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified as a fish weir (SMR file). Visible as a small rivulet on the mudflats at low tide on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and Google Earth orthoimages taken 24/03/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 6 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cliff-edge fortunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.