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Weir - fish

River Blackwater, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Weir - fish, River Blackwater, County Waterford, 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
River Blackwater
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Fish Weir
Latest-edition OS map
Not idicated
Coordinates
51.99483, -7.88547
SMR number
WA037-012----

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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)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Four weirs are enumerated in the N-S River Blackwater between Ballynatray and Templemichael in 1602, and two are specifically associated with the manor of Ballynatray in 1604 (Went 1946, 181). The location is uncertain but a fish weir is recorded on a Bateman map of 1717 (NLI: ms. 6148, 1) and also on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map at he point where the W-E Glendine River joins the Blackwater.

Went, A. E. J. (1946) Irish fishing weirs. JRSAI, vol. 76. 176-194.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 07 October 2011

References

Went, A.E.J. 1946 Irish fishing weirs I. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 76, 176-95.

Nearby in the register

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

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