Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
Ballymacsradeen East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacsradeen East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Eel Weir
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52055, -8.67091
- SMR number
- LI031-125001-
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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
On the S bank of the Camoge River that marks the townland boundary with Monaster North. Monasteranenagh Abbey (LI031-050004-) 665m to SE. One of three weirs (LI031-125002/004-) associated with a watermill (LI031-125003-) 65m to NE. Annotated ‘Eel Weir’ on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Not depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Lady Anne Southwell was the owner in Ballymacsradeen of, ‘half a plowland with two Eele Weares [LI035-125004-]’ (Simington 1938, 371). Stone weir visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/02/2020 may have been built on site of medieval eel weir.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 1 April 2021
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
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Fordunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.