Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
Dunkip, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunkip
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI031-233----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a medieval eel weir on the Camoge River n the townland of Dunkip has not been identified. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that; 'The River of Comoge passeth through the Premisses and hath one Eele weare out of repaire now upon it. Nicholas Bourke son to the syd. James being a P[ro]testant claymeth interest to the p[re]misses by virtue of a Conveyance made to him by his father' (Simington 1938, 138).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 10 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.