What is recorded here

Weir is a post-medieval fish trap on the Shannon Estuary, County Clare. Its double row of posts and wattle fence still stands twenty-six metres east of Bush Island, mouth open to catch what the ebbing tide forgets. The clay has buried one panel but not the hunger of the place. Fish still strike the wood when the water leaves, and someone may still walk the foreshore at low tide listening for that sound.

Situated c. 260m E of Bush Island on the Shannon Estuary. Described by O’Sullivan (2001, 302) as a post-medieval ‘C-shaped post-and-wattle fence (double row of posts with downstream braces) on W bank of creek on upper foreshore, 50 to SW of Bush Island 12. Oriented E-W, 47m long; mouth faces upstream to catch fish on ebbing tide. A horizontal post-and-wattle panel (2m E-W, 1m N-S) is buried in clays 6m to E of fence. July 2000.’ (O’Sullivan 2001, 206, 302, Bush Island 13) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 5 June 2019

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