What is recorded here

Thirty-five timber posts still pierce the muddy shoal south of Bush Island, forming a narrow gate across the Shannon current. Built in the nineteenth century, the structure forced salmon and sea trout into a killable line instead of allowing them to scatter through open water. Men likely stood beside the posts at low tide, reading the struggle of silver bodies through green foam before striking or netting them. The wood has rotted but the geometry remains, marking the exact moment human patience bent river life into a harvestable shape.

On the N bank of the Shannon estuary adjacent to Bush Island. Described by O’Sullivan (2001, 300) as a post medieval ‘ multiple post alignments on muddy shoal in channel, 50m to S of island, at LWM. Largest post alignment (of multiple, closely spaced posts), set at right angles to channel, is oriented N-s and measures 35m in length. A single parallel alignment of posts to E and two parallel post alignments to W make overall structure 15m wide (E-W). A fifth post alignment runs E-W at S end of main post alignment. Probable nineteenth-century stake weirs. July 2000.' (O'Sullivan 2001, 200-202, 300, Bush Island 1) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 21 August 2019

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