What is recorded here
An Inquisition of 1614 makes reference to a fishing weir in existence in Dunganstown in 1597. This was probably on the same site as the weir marked on the 1839 'OS 6-inch' map. (Went 1954, 234)
Reference:
Went A.E.J. 1954 'Notes on the Fisheries of the River Barrow' in The Journal of Kildare Archaeological Society Vol 13, 234.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 6 January 2012
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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