Will, from the 1st of October, depart every morning from Athy at eight o’clock, and arrive at Carlow at or before eleven o’clock, and again on each day leave Carlow at two o’clock, and arrive at Athy by five o’clock in the evening. To continue at these hours until further notice – and it is intended very shortly to run a boat to Leighlin bridge.
27th Sept 1799
Saunders’s News-Letter, and Daily Advertiser 23 December 1799
From the British Newspaper Archive run by Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited, in partnership with the British Library.
The passage boats were not a success, nor were the hotels at Carlow and Graiguenamanagh, and the last passage boats from Carlow to Athy ceased to operate in 1809.
V T H & D R Delany The Canals of the South of Ireland David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1966
Irish waterways history 