Nama to Nature has been planting trees at Keshcarrigan on the Shannon–Erne Waterway, along which far too many developers wanted to sell houses that would have fast boats parked outside. I don’t know whether my photo shows the Waterways estate or a different one.
Keshcarrigan September 2011
h/t Ireland after NAMA.
That’s the Waterways Estate in your photo Brian -Jill and I had a walk round it last year and were very amused by the ‘lifestyle’ posters on the site’s hoarding boards: the boats depicted were so ill-suited to the SEW they would have had their props and drives destroyed before they’d even left the lake!
Giles.
Good: thanks. Destroying the boats’ props and drives might have given the banks (that’s the waterway’s banks, not the financial institutions) some protection. bjg
Hi Brian,
Different Voices on Newstalk will bring a documentary of the ghost estates at Keshcarrigan, Newtowngore, and Ballinamore this weekend.
http://www.newstalk.ie/2012/programmes/all-programmes/different-voices/different-voices-archive/documentary-looks-at-the-leitrim-landscape-from-the-boom-and-back/
Tina
Thanks, Tina. bjg