Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
Ballytoohey, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballytoohey
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Weir
- Coordinates
- 53.73953, -7.91762
- SMR number
- RO030-021----
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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 River Shannon just below Termonbarry. A weir worth 8 shilings at Aghnegore, Co. Longford, was granted to Patrick Fox of Dublin in 1607 (Cal. Pat. Rolls Irl. James 1, 114). This may have been located where the present weir is situated just below Termonbarry Bridge.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I - Irish patent rolls of James I: facsimile of the Irish record commissioners' calendar prepared prior to 1830, with foreword by M.C. Griffith (Irish Manuscripts Commission, Dublin, 1966)
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.