What is recorded here
Weir is a post-medieval double row of stakes on the north bank of the Shannon estuary, lying beside Bush Island in County Clare. Its eighty metres of aligned posts cut across the upper foreshore like a broken ribbon dropped into the tide. Fish may have struck that line, people may have read the water by it, and the sea may have taken the rest.
On the N bank of the Shannon estuary adjacent to Bush Island. Described by O’Sullivan (2001, 302) as post-medieval ‘post alignments (double row) on N bank of creek on upper foreshore, NW of Bush Island, oriented NNE-SSW, 80m long. July 2000.' (O'Sullivan 2001, 205, 302, Bush Island 9)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 21 August 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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