What is recorded here

Two birch stakes stand five metres apart on the eroding eastern shore of Canon Island, possibly holding a net or marking a lost wooden frame. They remain near the abbey ruins, catching fish or memory in the Fergus Estuary. The mud takes them back each tide, but the gap between the stakes still shapes the water like a trap.

On the E shore of Canon Island in the Fergus Estuary. Described by O’Sullivan et al. (2010) as follows: ‘The possible remains of a fishweir are located on the eroding mud on the eastern shore of Canon Island, not far from where the ruins of the abbey lie. It consists of just two stakes, c. 5m apart. These were possibly used to hold a net or possibly are the remains of a more substantial wooden structure. The former is more likely, given the nature of the other possible fishweirs found in the immediate vicinity. One of the stakes was sampled and this was identified as birch wood. It gave a date of Cal. AD 1681-1954 (105+/-31BP) indicating that it was post medieval to modern in date.’ (O’Sullivan et al. 2010, Appendix 1, 59, Canon Island 5) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 9 October 2019

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