Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
Ballyhack, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhack
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WX044-016----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Ballyhack was always a fishing village of Dunbrody Abbey (WX039-030001-), and at the Suppression in 1541 nine fishermen occupied nine tenements belonging to the abbey. They had two boats, but fishing weirs are not specifically mentioned (Hore 1900-11, vol. 3, 126-7). The Civil Survey (1654-5) records a ruined weir at Ballyhack, then owned by John Itchingham (Simington 1953, 194). Its precise location is not known.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 17 June, 2013
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1953 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IX: county of Wexford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.