The Kildare Archaeological Society’s programme for 2012 is available on the Co. Kildare Online Electronic History Journal website (which, incidentally, has a useful RSS feed). Its Heritage Week outing in August 2012 is waterway-based:
Sunday 26th August, 3.00 pm – Heritage Week Outing
Robertstown, the Grand Canal and Lowtown Lock
Guided walk by Karen Gorey.
Meet at the Holiday village Car Park, Robertstown. No Charge.
The Irish Examiner reports on the proposed LNG storage terminal here. Richard Tol provides an informed view here. The objectors’ site is here. I note from the Examiner report that they say:
Shannon LNG is hoping to make millions of euro profits every year with state support at the consumers’ expense at time of increasing fuel poverty.
Unfortunately the report did not say why a wish to make profits is to be deprecated or why it is a bad idea to increase fuel supplies and security “at time of increasing fuel poverty” but perhaps the extensive bogs, whose product was exported through Saleen, are still available.
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Tagged Ballylongford, boats, estuary, Ireland, irisheconomy, Kerry, LNG, Operations, Rabbitte, Richard Tol, Saleen, Shannon, Tarbert, turf, vessels, waterways
Drawings now uploaded. Much more activity in these than in the Lough Ree equivalents, with steamers towing barges, turf boats, the surveyors’ cutter and other excitements.
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Tagged Admiralty, Beechey, boats, Charles Wye Williams, chart, Clare, cutter, drawing, Grand Canal, Holy Island, hydrographic, Ireland, Killaloe, Lady Lansdowne, Limerick, Lough Derg, Nutgrove, Operations, quay, Shannon, survey, turf, vessels, waterways, Williamstown, Wolfe, workboat
Waterways Ireland tender documents are a source of interesting and occasionally useful information. At present WI is looking for tenders for
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Tagged canal, Ireland, Operations, Royal Canal, Shannon, turf, waterways, Waterways Ireland, weir
Here are some pages about the Junction Navigation in the Ballinamore & Ballyconnell drainage district. It later became known as the Ballinamore & Ballyconnell Canal and later still as the Shannon–Erne Waterway.
The role of the cads and bounders of the Ulster Canal Company in getting a canal built at taxpayers’ expense
The construction of the Junction Navigation at Aghoo (Lock 4)
Lock gear old and new
And here’s a reminder of an old page about the Belturbet-built dredger used in constructing the navigation.
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Tagged aghoo, belfast, Belturbet, boats, bounders, bridge, cads, canal, Clones, Department of Community Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, drainage, dredger, Dublin, Erne, gear, Grand Canal, Ireland, Killaloe, Limerick, lock, Lough Neagh, Mahony, McMahon, Mulvany, Operations, paddle, rack, Royal Canal, Shannon, turf, Ulster Canal, vessels, water level, waterways, Williams
A reproduction Shannon Estuary turf boat is being built at Querrin.
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Tagged boats, Clare, cot, hooker, Ireland, Kilrush, Limerick, Operations, quay, Querrin, sail, Seol Sionna, Shannon, turf, vessels, waterways
