What is recorded here

The Boyne still throws itself at the stone lip, white water hissing in the dark. Men built the weir to keep the river honest, not to trap fish for abbots. Mapmakers drew a line where the water bends, and the line became a name. Weir is the place where the river admits it cannot pass unnoticed.

The weir marked at this location on all editions of the OS 6-inch maps belongs to a regulating weir on the River Boyne. There is no cartographic evidence to suggest that there was a medieval fish weir belonging to the Cistercian abbey of Mellifont at this location. In 1358, the Abbot of Mellifont obtained a judgment in his favour regarding the three fishing weirs at Rosnaree (ME019-068002-), Knowth and Staghlyn (ME019-066001-) (Went 1953, 22). At the dissolution of the abbey of the Mellifont, a fishing weir at 'Stalyng' was listed as part of the possessions of the abbey (ibid., 23). According to Went the 'fishing weirs at Staleen and Newgrange (ME019-068001-) have not been used recently for the capture of salmon. Only those of Oldbrige and Rosnaree (ME019-068002-) have been used for upwards of a century, although the Staleen (ME019-066001-) weir may have been used for eels in more recent years' (ibid., 23-4). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 11 November 2013.

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