What is recorded here

Thirty metres west of Bush Island, a tick-shaped wooden fishtrap still bites into the clay bank where the Shannon tide pulls at it. Two fences meet at a sharp angle, one stretching a hundred and twenty metres along the shore, catching what the river forgets to carry away. The wood has surrendered its polish to the water, but the geometry remains patient, waiting for fish to walk into the only exit they believe they see.

On the N bank of the Shannon estuary adjacent to Bush Island. Described by O’Sullivan (2001, 300-301) as a post medieval ‘large tick-shaped wooden fishtrap in estuarine clays at LWM, c. 30m W of Bush Island 2B. Flood fence oriented NW-SE, 10m long; shore fence oriented N-S, 120m long. The enclosed angle is c. 60 degrees. July 2000.' (O'Sullivan 2001, 200-203, 300-301, Bush Island 2C) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 21 August 2019

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