Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
Ballygrennan (coshma By., Bruff Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygrennan (coshma By., Bruff Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI040-295----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of the medieval fish weir of Ballygrennan which stood on the Morningstar River to the N of Ballygrennan Castle (LI040-007----) has not been identified. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that James Fox of Ballygrennan an Irish Papist was in possession of 'a Castle an orchard and a fishing weare out of repayre Due to the Earle of Kildare seventeene shillings and six pence p[er] ann[um] chiefrye' (Simington 1938, 133).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 30 October 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.