What is recorded here

Little Quay Island casts a long shadow on the western bank, where a forgotten fence still lies buried in estuarine clay. Medieval hands may have driven vertical posts and woven horizontal branches across the Owenagarney channel, trapping silver fish in a narrow ten-metre cage. The tide reveals the skeleton of that cunning, proving human ingenuity can outlast the lives that built it.

On the W bank of the River Owenagarney channel in the Shannon Estuary, 160m N of Little Quay Island. Described by O’Sullivan (2001, 298) as a possibly medieval ‘post-and-wattle fence (Bunratty 1.1), horizontal post-and-wattle panel (Bunratty 1.2) and vertical posts and horizontal branches in estuarine clays exposed below the mean LWM over an area measuring 10m (NE-SW) by 1m. February 1997.’ (O’Sullivan 2001, 151-4, 298, Bunratty 1) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 5 June 2019

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