Another turf canal system

Here is a short page about a canal system I had not heard of before today. It was a network of turf canals, with a sea lock, on the estate of Scotts of Willsborough, near Eglinton, on Lough Foyle; the Scotts supplied [London]Derry with turf and, like James Macnab at Portcrusha, reclaimed the land from the bog.

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