What is recorded here

Under Mayor's Walk, a twelve-metre timber fence still holds the River Nore back. Medieval hands drove posts and wattle into the floodplain, forcing the water to obey human hunger for dry land. The river resisted, drowned fields, and returned whenever pride slipped. That is why the fence exists: not to decorate the bank, but to mark the place where people stopped asking permission from the water.

Timber riverine revetment fence excavated by Ian Doyle and Brenda O'Meara (01E0821) on E bank of the River Nore at John's Quay/Mayor's Walk (Doyle and O'Meara 2004, 3; Doyle 2006, 270-71). A section of post-and-wattle fence (L 12m) orientated NW-SE incorporating a tree-trunk revealed in the excavation (ibid.). Dating is uncertain but probably medieval and associated with attempts to reclaim the floodplain of the River Nore. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 13 November 2020

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