If you own either of these boats, you might like to check your mooring lines.
Barrow Otter between the aqueducts
Small boat between the Robertstown slipway and Lowtown
Incidentally, the roadway between Robertstown and Lowtown is in dreadful condition.
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Tagged aqueduct, barge, Barrow, Barrow Otter, boats, bridge, canal, Grand Canal, Ireland, jetties, Kildare, Lowtown, Operations, Robertstown, Slate River, slipway, vessels, waterways, Waterways Ireland, White-eye feeder
Paul Quinn has very kindly sent on some recent photos of the work in progress at the Grand Canal Dock in Dublin. Two of the photos show the strengthening of Hanover Quay and the third shows the new slipway, which is now complete and in use. I’ve added the photos towards the end of the existing GCD page here.
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Tagged barge, boats, bridge, canal, Dublin, Grand Canal, Grand Canal Dock, Hanover Quay, Ireland, L & M Keating, Liffey, lock, Operations, Ringsend, slipway, waterways, Waterways Ireland
It’s a long way from Trinity College, Dublin to the pier at Saleen on Ballylongford Creek, on the south side of the Shannon Estuary. But the college owned large amounts of land in the area, including bogs, and turf was one of the cargoes exported from Ballylongford. There was a battery on Carrig Island at the mouth of the creek and a Coast Guard Station at Saleen Pier, which was built by the Commissioners for the Improvement of the Navigation of the Shannon. Read more about Saleen here.
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Tagged Ballylongford, battery, boats, bog, bollard, Carrig Island, Coast Guard, Commissioners, Front Square, goat, Ireland, jetties, Kerry, Kilrush, Limerick, lost, Operations, potatoes, Saleen, Saleen Pier, Shannon, slipway, Tarbert, TCD, tide, Trinity College Dublin, turf, vessels, water level, withy
