Salmon Weir Bridge
Five-span stone bridge over a rushing river, beside a weir where anglers cast for running salmon.
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This guide to the Salmon Weir Bridge in Galway follows the town's long appetite for the salmon that crowd the River Corrib below the weir. It reaches from Franciscan fish traps and merchant fishing rights to a nineteenth-century saying about the river, the prisoners who once crossed this span, and a protest planned on it in nineteen seventy. Best heard leaning on the upstream parapet, facing the weir gates.
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