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Weir — fish in Bush Island (bunratty Lower By.),river Shannon,moyhill (bunratty Lower By.)

Weir — fish
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On the N bank of the Shannon estuary adjacent to Moyhill townland. Described by O’Sullivan (2001, 301) as a possibly medieval ‘basket buried in ancient estuarine clays exposed in the E side of creek on lower foreshore, c. 450m W of Bush Island, c. 80m NE of Shannon estuary channel LWM. Basket is of a broad U-shape, oriented NNE-SSW, 3.9m in exposed width and 3.6m in exposed length. A post-and-wattle panel and four large roundwood posts are buried in clays at NNE end of basket. July 2000.' (O'Sullivan 2001, 178-9, 301, Bush Island 3) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 21 August 2019

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