Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
Ballynash, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynash
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.62566, -8.99385
- SMR number
- LI010-120001-
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
In estuarine clay, on E side of Deel estuary. Described by O'Sullivan (2001, 145-7 & 309) as 'V-shaped wooden fishtrap ... constructed of two converging post-and-wattle fences, oriented as flood weir, with shore and flood fences measuring 26m and 4.5m in length'. A single vertical post from the largest fence provided a radiocarbon date which indicated that the trap was build some time between the mid-eleventh and early thirteenth century AD (ibid., 150).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
O'Sullivan, A. 2001 Foragers, farmers and fishers in a coastal landscape. Discovery Programme Monograph No. 5
Nearby in the register
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
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- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.