I came across a quiz I compiled in 2004 for the Athy Water Festival. Q6 no longer applies and I can’t guarantee that all of the others are still true, but here is it anyway.
- What is the taste of the town where a doleful damsel laments her armless boneless chickenless egg?
- What armless legless Barrow man did not have to be put out with a bowl to beg but was an enlightened landlord, “a Member of Parliament, Lord Lieutenant of the County Carlow, Member of the Privy Council of Ireland, magistrate, world traveller, yachtsman, sometime dispatch rider in the East India service, crack shot, keen fisherman” and “a terror with the ladies”?
- What are the names of the aqueducts immediately above and below Vicarstown?
- What is the only Barrow lock with no corresponding weir?
- Where did the now-derelict canal branch from Monasterevan go to?
- What beer is named after a Barrow saint? [Carlow Brewing Company used to have a red ale named St Moling’s]
- How many bollards are there on each side of Lock 28 on the Barrow Line? [Maybe the number has changed since 2004]
- What is the name of the double lock on the Barrow?
- “A swan goes by head low with many apologies
Fantastic light looks through the eyes of bridges
And look! a barge comes bringing from Athy
And other far-flung towns mythologies.” Said who? - What two rivers enter the Barrow between Maganey and Bestfield Locks?
Tie-breaker: (a) Who composed “Five Locks on the Barrow”? (b) What are the five locks?
Leave your answers in the Comments below (if you like).
Irish waterways history 
Look forward to the replies as I imagine that I got most of them correct, have a boat in St Mullins and cruise to Borris quite often. But before making an eejit of myself will cross check the answers
Regards Tommy