Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
Abington, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abington
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.63201, -8.42336
- SMR number
- LI014-014014-
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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
The precise location of a medieval fish weir in the Mulkear River to the S of Owney Abbey (LI014-014002-) has not been identified. This monument was one of two fish weirs (LI014-014014-/015-) mentioned in the 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick which recorded that in the parish of Abbeyowney there was ‘a Mannor Towne (LI014-014001-) wth the priviledge of a Courte Leete and Courte barron. Ye River of Muilcherne leadinge through the said Towne and a stone bridge (LI014-014008-) thereuppon one Mill (LI014-014007-) two fishing weares’ (Simington 1938, 3). The fish weir depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map may have been built on the site of or incorporated remains of the medieval fish weir. The second weir (LI014-014015-) may have been located approx. 120m to the E. The two fishing weirs may be indicated by the two islands depicted on the 1900 ed. OS 25-inch map.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien and Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 29 June 2017
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.
Nearby in the register
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- House - 16th centuryunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.