What is recorded here

Eel Weir is a vanished fish trap on the Camoge River beside Monasteranenagh Abbey, recorded in 1654 when Lady Anne Southwell owned the mill seat and eel weare. The 1840 map still marked the place, but modern surveys find only a narrow stone channel where water once drove a mill wheel and filled baskets with silver eels. The river may have hidden the weir beneath silt and reeds while people stopped looking for it.

On the N bank of Camoge River that marks the townland boundary with Ballymacsradeen East. One of three weirs (LI031-125001/002/004-) associated with the watermill (LI031-125003-) that lies 45m to NW and Monasteranenagh Abbey (LI031-050004-) 665m to SE. Annotated ‘Eel Weir’ on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Not depicted on the OSi 25-inch map. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Lady Anne Southwell was the owner in Monasteranenagh of, ‘half a plow[lan]d w[i]th a mill seate (LI031-125003-) and an Eele weare [LI035-125002-]’ (Simington 1938, 371). The eel weir depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map may have been built on site of medieval eel weir. Surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as no surface remains visible with a narrow channel running NE defined by large stones possible part of a lade system associated with the mill wheel. Visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-2012 and Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/02/2020 as a narrow channel running NE for a length of c. 20m. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 1 April 2021

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