13/06/1941: Fishery Definition No. D. 135. No. 91 Or Galway District.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (FISHERIES BRANCH). FISHERIES ACTS, 1842 TO 1939. _____________________________

Definition No. D. 135. No. 91 OR GALWAY DISTRICT.

TIDAL AND FRESHWATER BOUNDARIES OF THE RIVERS CORRIB, FURBOGH, SPIDDLE OR OWENBOLISKEY, OWENRIFF AND CRUMLIN.

I, SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN, Minister for Agriculture, by virtue and in exercise of the powers now exercisable by me under the Fisheries Acts, 1842 to 1939, and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling do hereby define and mark out

(1) the boundary between the tidal and freshwater portions of the RIVER CORRIB in the No. 9¹ or Galway District to be the upstream face of the second bridge from the sea over the said river, known as William O'Brien Bridge ;

(2) the boundary between the tidal and freshwater portions of the FURBOGH RIVER in the No. 9¹ or Galway District to be an imaginary straight line drawn across the said river at right angles to its course 34 yards upstream from the centre of the upstream face of the bridge nearest the sea over the said river, known as Furbogh Bridge ;

(3) the boundary between the tidal and freshwater portions of the RIVER SPIDDLE or OWENBOLISKEY in the No. 9¹ or Galway District to be an imaginary straight line drawn across the said river at right angles to its course 60 yards downstream from the centre of the downstream face of the bridge over the said river known as Spiddle Bridge;

(4) the boundary between the tidal and freshwater portions of the RIVER OWENRIFF in the No. 9¹ or Galway District to be an imaginary straight line drawn across the said river at right angles to its course 60 yards upstream from the point shown on the Ordnance Survey map on a scale of ½500 as High Water Mark ; and

(5) the boundary between the tidal and freshwater portions of the CRUMLIN RIVER in the No. 9¹ or Galway District to be an imaginary straight line drawn across the said river at right angles to its course 40 yards upstream from the point shown on the Ordnance Survey map on a scale of ½500 as High Water Mark.

Given under my Official Seal this 13th day of June, 1941.

(Signed) SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture. [5]