What is recorded here

Portdrine is a fish weir on the northern Shannon estuary, where a long line of posts still cuts through sandy clay at low water. The structure stretches eighty-five metres from northwest to southeast, blocking the tide and forcing silver fish into narrow kills. It may date from medieval times or appear later, but the river has answered the same wooden command for centuries.

On the N bank of the Shannon estuary adjacent to the townland of Portdrine. Described by O’Sullivan (2001, 305) as a post-medieval or possibly medieval ‘post alignment, oriented NW-SE, 85m long, in firm, sandy estuarine clays at LWM. March 1999.' (O'Sullivan 2001, 208-9, 305, O’Brien’s Point 1) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 21 August 2019

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