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Weir - fish

Ballymacsradeen East, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Weir - fish, Ballymacsradeen East, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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