Comments on: The Bride, the Munster Blackwater and the Lismore Canal http://irishwaterwayshistory.com Inland waterways of Ireland; history; online heritage centre Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:40:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: bjg http://irishwaterwayshistory.com/abandoned-or-little-used-irish-waterways/waterways-of-cork-and-kerry/the-bride-the-munster-blackwater-and-the-lismore-canal/#comment-15052 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:33:21 +0000 http://irishwaterways.wordpress.com/?page_id=42#comment-15052 Thanks, Antoin: that’s very interesting. bjg

]]> By: Antoin Daltún http://irishwaterwayshistory.com/abandoned-or-little-used-irish-waterways/waterways-of-cork-and-kerry/the-bride-the-munster-blackwater-and-the-lismore-canal/#comment-15049 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:58:36 +0000 http://irishwaterways.wordpress.com/?page_id=42#comment-15049 http://website.lineone.net/~tom_lee/dartmouthcpsimg.htm shows a postcard, send Christmas 1906, of the paddle steamer Dartmouth Castle. It says: “This small steamer was built for the D&TSPCo as a replacement for Newcomin, which had been sold to French owners the year before. In company with Berry Castle, Dartmouth Castle sailed on the Dartmouth to Totnes service at a tariff of 1/- (5p) saloon and 9d cabin for the single trip. No luggage was allowed to be carried on excursion trips! Dartmouth Castle was sold in June 1907 to Irish owners. She arrived in Ireland in September 1907 and continued sailing on the River Blackwater between Youghal and Cappoquin in County Waterford until 1913, when she was scrapped”.
The Irish owner is given as Youghal & Blackwater Tourist Steamship Company Ltd.

]]> By: bjg http://irishwaterwayshistory.com/abandoned-or-little-used-irish-waterways/waterways-of-cork-and-kerry/the-bride-the-munster-blackwater-and-the-lismore-canal/#comment-15003 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:08:38 +0000 http://irishwaterways.wordpress.com/?page_id=42#comment-15003 Thanks, Ted. Will do. bjg

]]> By: Ted http://irishwaterwayshistory.com/abandoned-or-little-used-irish-waterways/waterways-of-cork-and-kerry/the-bride-the-munster-blackwater-and-the-lismore-canal/#comment-15002 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:06:06 +0000 http://irishwaterways.wordpress.com/?page_id=42#comment-15002 A lovely tour in a fascinating website, thank you!

Could you please pass my e-mail address to Niall O’Brien as I would like to copy of his book (Blackwater and Bride).

Many thanks,

Ted.

]]> By: Jim O'Malley http://irishwaterwayshistory.com/abandoned-or-little-used-irish-waterways/waterways-of-cork-and-kerry/the-bride-the-munster-blackwater-and-the-lismore-canal/#comment-11553 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:36:25 +0000 http://irishwaterways.wordpress.com/?page_id=42#comment-11553 Jim O’Malley,
I suucceeded in fulfilling my plan to walk the Blackwater last year, completing the journey from ‘source to sea’ in seven days.

It turned out to be a wonderful but much greater challenge than I had imagined. The travails of the first day, through the briars and bushes of Sliabh Luachra, caused me to comment that Moses had an easier time crossing the dead sea.

Following the river from Muing an Oighin where it begins as a mere trickle to Ballinatray where it expands in to a great river course was an experience I will always cherish.

A Mallow resident commented to me on the third day, ‘Tuhere’s great therapy ina flowing river.’ T.S. Eliot, who grew up on St Loius, onthe Missouri, that the experience of living near a great river is incommunicable to those who have not experienced it. Eliot wrote in the ‘Four Quartets’,
‘I do not know much about gods but I think the river is a great brown god/sullen untamed and intractable

Jim O Malley

]]> By: Bill Power http://irishwaterwayshistory.com/abandoned-or-little-used-irish-waterways/waterways-of-cork-and-kerry/the-bride-the-munster-blackwater-and-the-lismore-canal/#comment-10487 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:04:08 +0000 http://irishwaterways.wordpress.com/?page_id=42#comment-10487 For more photos of the Blackwater go to
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mitchelstown/sets/72157625140499211/

]]> By: Bill Power http://irishwaterwayshistory.com/abandoned-or-little-used-irish-waterways/waterways-of-cork-and-kerry/the-bride-the-munster-blackwater-and-the-lismore-canal/#comment-10486 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:59:25 +0000 http://irishwaterways.wordpress.com/?page_id=42#comment-10486 Hi Claire. You can email me directly at billpower@gmx.com
Bill

]]> By: Claire M. Demers http://irishwaterwayshistory.com/abandoned-or-little-used-irish-waterways/waterways-of-cork-and-kerry/the-bride-the-munster-blackwater-and-the-lismore-canal/#comment-10477 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:04:08 +0000 http://irishwaterways.wordpress.com/?page_id=42#comment-10477 I am the grandaughter of Mary Powers who lived in the Blackwater area and escaped to America at the age of sixteen after being “farmed out” to work for a farmer and slept in a hayloft . (She came here under an assumed name so tracing records is impossible. Sounds grim but she was a courageous woman who lived in the Boston Massachusets area. I am trying to trace back some of the history – She had a brother, John Powers, a school teacher, who lived his life in this Blackwater area. It’s a shot in the dark but I would so appreciate getting in touch with Bill Power, the photographer who shared his pictures and who might have some information, or anybody else who could help me. My e-mail is: cmdofthesea@cableone.net Thank you, Claire Demers

]]> By: bjg http://irishwaterwayshistory.com/abandoned-or-little-used-irish-waterways/waterways-of-cork-and-kerry/the-bride-the-munster-blackwater-and-the-lismore-canal/#comment-10383 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:21:25 +0000 http://irishwaterways.wordpress.com/?page_id=42#comment-10383 Thanks, Chris. I hope you may make it some day. bjg

]]> By: Chris http://irishwaterwayshistory.com/abandoned-or-little-used-irish-waterways/waterways-of-cork-and-kerry/the-bride-the-munster-blackwater-and-the-lismore-canal/#comment-8453 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:26:51 +0000 http://irishwaterways.wordpress.com/?page_id=42#comment-8453 How I loved this article… as an Australian who may never actually get to do this ‘cruise’ ( it won’t be for the want of trying), I was swept along the waterways with you… you have a great way of taking readers along… for that I am grateful. I will link to your site from mine…
http://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/

I have already subscribed to your site as a follower…

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