What is recorded here

Quay Island has a long stone weir on its north side, built to catch fish when the Shannon tide pulled back. People lived beside that water for centuries, taking what the river gave and leaving the cliff edge open to the sky. The chamber remains closed, but the sea still moves around the island and the weir still stands in the clay.

On the N bank of the Shannon estuary adjacent to Quay Island. Described by O’Sullivan (2001, 305) as a post-medieval ‘large V-shaped or U-shaped fishtrap in estuarine clays at LWM, to SW of Quay Island. Flood fence oriented WNW-ESE, 45m in exposed length; shore fence oriented NW-SE, 30m in exposed length. February 1997.' (O'Sullivan 2001, 197, 199, 305, Quay Island 2) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 21 August 2019

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