Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
Ballyculhane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyculhane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI012-166----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a Salmon weir belonging to Ballyculhane Castle (LI012-010002-) in the townland of Ballyculhane has not been identified. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Major General Patrick Purcell, an Irish Papist was the owner of the lands of Ballyculhane which contained 'a Castle, a Bawne three greate houses and ten Cottages one Mill seate, one Salmon weare in repayre besides other weare seates, oweing a red rose p[er] Ann[um] to the Mannor house of Aghdare' (Simington 1938, 346).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 18 November 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.