Lax Weir

Ireland / Limerick /
Remains of old salmon weir. Founded originally by the Vikings. 'Lax' being Norse for salmon.
Photograph. Titled: The Lax Weir Castle. View of building (Caslaunnacorran) on a small island in the River Shannon, part of Lax Weir with wooden gangplanks in foreground
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Coordinates:   52°41'24"N   8°37'24"W

Comments

  • Recieves obscure mention in Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce: "But, their bright little contemporaries notwithstanding, on the morrowing morn of the suicidal murder of the unrescued ex-patriate, aslike as asnake comes sliduant down that oaktree onto the duke of beavers, (you may have seen some liquidamber exude exotic from a balsam poplar at Parteen-a-lax Limestone."
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