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Weir

Weir, fish

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Thirty-five metres of posts still angle northeast across the Shannon estuary beside Portdrine, catching fish or marking a boundary in medieval water. The alignment narrows toward O’Brien’s Point, suggesting human hands shaped the tide’s path long before modern records.
On the N bank of the Shannon estuary adjacent to the townland of Portdrine. Described by O’Sullivan (2001, 305) as a post-medieval or possibly medieval ‘post alignment, oriented NE-SW, 35m long, appears to converge with the SE end of O’Brien’s Point 1 [CL062-045001-] below LWM. March 1999.' (O'Sullivan 2001, 208-9, 305, O’Brien’s Point 2) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 21 August 2019

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