Water supply to the Royal Canal: the feeders
The proposed supply of water from Lough Ennell
F E Prothero on the Royal Canal in the 1890s
The Broadstone Line in Dublin
Steamers on the Royal and a sunken barge
Horse-drawn traffic: Leech of Killucan and the bog ore trade; Nicholas Butler’s onboard stabling
Filling in the Royal: what Keynes might have recommended if something isn’t done to increase usage
Waterways widdershins: some advice (from 2011) on a possible route from the Shannon to Dublin and back along Grand and Royal
Clontarf to Clondra: Clontarf Yacht and Boat Club’s 2011 commemoration of its 1925 trip
The whore who held the mortgage on the Royal Canal
Eggs: an important trade on the Royal
Irish waterways history 
i heard that the original plan for the canal was to be north of maynooth and in county Meath proper. Are there any drawings of this original route or do we know where it would have ran?