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Weir in Ballyhack

Weir, fish
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What is recorded here

Ballyhack was always a fishing village of Dunbrody Abbey (WX039-030001-), and at the Suppression in 1541 nine fishermen occupied nine tenements belonging to the abbey. They had two boats, but fishing weirs are not specifically mentioned (Hore 1900-11, vol. 3, 126-7). The Civil Survey (1654-5) records a ruined weir at Ballyhack, then owned by John Itchingham (Simington 1953, 194). Its precise location is not known.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX044-016

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  • Alanna Milbourne, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Humphrey Bolton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Humphrey Bolton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Redmond O'Brien, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Julie Anne Workman, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • John Myers, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • P L Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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