Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
Tooreen (Coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tooreen (Coshma By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI030-188----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a medieval eel weir in the townland of Tooreen has not been identified. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Edmund Hickie of Tooreen, an Irish Papist, was the owner of 'six greate accres with two houses, the stump of a castle [LI030-129----] one Eele weare out of repaire, and an orchard' (Simington 1938, 140).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 9 December 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.
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