Category Archives: Shannon

Limerick dredging

Posted on Tuesday 21 February 2012 | 2 Comments

The Limerick Post has news here.

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Castlelough

Posted on Friday 17 February 2012 | Leave a comment

 

 

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Sailing merchant vessels

Posted on Thursday 16 February 2012 | Leave a comment

Niall O’Brien, author of the history of the Blackwater and Bride, has set up a Facebook page about sailing merchant vessels of Ireland and Britain. Many of these used the Irish estuaries — including the Shannon, Blackwater, Barrow and Suir — and thus overlapped with inland navigation.

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Charging Waterways Ireland for water

Posted on Thursday 16 February 2012 | 1 Comment

Nice PQ from Éamon Ó Cuív here:

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail). Question 446: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if Waterways Ireland will have to pay for the abstraction of water for use in the Royal Canal, the Grand Canal, the Shannon-Erne Waterway and other man-made waterways as a result of the reasoned opinion from the European Union in November 2011; the reply sent by him regarding same to the Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8122/12]

Here is the European Commission’s press release on the subject.

 

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Castlelough

Posted on Sunday 12 February 2012 | Leave a comment

 

 

Flat calm on Lough Derg.

 

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Of engineers

Posted on Thursday 9 February 2012 | Leave a comment

He did not mean to deny the fitness of the [Shannon] Commissioners to execute the task which had devolved upon them, but he considered that five engineers of such eminence as those named in the Commission were too many to appoint for such a purpose, and the only result to be looked for would be that some plan of great magnificence and grandeur would be suggested, which the House of Commons would never feel itself authorised to grant money to execute, and then the projected improvement of the river would be altogether dropped and lost sight of.

Lord Clements, House of Commons 17 February 1836

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Killaloe bridge

Posted on Wednesday 8 February 2012 | Leave a comment

More on the new bridge here with the full public notice here [PDF]. Interesting to see how many of the names of landowners are known to me.

I see on page 6 of the notice that the ESB owns two rivers, which are occupied by the ESB, Waterways Ireland, the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland and other unknown persons. There is a canal, whose owners are unknown, which is occupied by WI, IWAI and the persons unknown, as is an island. I do hope that the council will return the canal, rivers and island when they’ve built the bridge.

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Lough Derg in 1820

Posted on Thursday 2 February 2012 | Leave a comment

Troll along (h/t Co Kildare Online Electronic Historu Journal) to the National Archives new online section showing the papers of the Chief Secretary of Ireland. So far they’ve put up a catalogue for the first five years, 1818 to 1822 inclusive, with images of some pages, including 17 maps and drawings.

The second map shows the Ballyteigue Canal in Co Wexford, the third is John Killaly’s map of Lough Derg in 1820 and the fourth (which is as far as I’ve got in looking through them) shows Cappa Pier at Kilrush. They’re a bit small when seen online, but you can select (and save a copy of) a PDF version.

Big it up for the National Archives and for Professor Francis J Crowley, whose bequest made this possible.

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Killaloe and Ballina

Posted on Friday 27 January 2012 | Leave a comment

Nice to see they’re going to get a Discover Day.

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Waterways Ireland salary reductions

Posted on Tuesday 24 January 2012 | Leave a comment

Annex E of the Waterways Ireland Corporate Plan 2011–2013 [PDF] ssets out the Efficiency Savings Delivery Plan:

This Delivery Plan describes the measures Waterways Ireland will implement to achieve its target savings for 2011–2013.

Efficiency Programme

The Body will realise total efficiencies of £5,229,000/€6,377,000 from 2011-2013 as shown in the Total Efficiency Table below. [...]

One problem for WI is that it expects to have to increase its pension costs by €1,175,000 over the three years, which means that WI actually has to save about €7.5 million over three years. It is showing a “Reduction in Capital Spend” of €3,102,ooo over the three years, plus reductions in Admin of €1,637,000 and in Resource of €2,813,000.

Here is how WI intends to achieve the Admin savings (€1,637,000 over three years):

Increase control in administration including negotiation of reductions in rates for Back Office Managed Services, new mobile phone contract and overtime control.

And the Resource savings (€2,813,000 over three years):

Controls over maintenance costs including lockkeepers agreement, salary reductions in Ireland and overtime control.

That looks as if most of the Resource savings are going to come from the wages bill; that in turn suggests that other costs have already been cut. The Resource reductions are allocated to waterways. In descending order of size the total figures for the three-year period are:

  • Grand Canal €910,000
  • Shannon Navigation €662,000
  • Royal Canal €503,000
  • Barrow Navigation €387,000
  • Shannon–Erne Waterway €232,000
  • Erne System €70,000
  • Lower Bann €69,000

 

 

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