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Saving the nation
The Shannon Navigation 1786
The Shannon in 1792
Turf and bog navigations
The Bog of Allen from the Grand Canal in 1835
John’s Canal, Castleconnell
The Canal at the World’s End
The Finnery River navigation
The Lough Boora Feeder
The Little Brosna
The Lullymore canal as wasn’t
The Roscrea canals
The Monivea navigations
Lacy’s Canal
The Rockville Navigation page 1
Down the Rockville
The Rockville Navigation page 2
The Rockville Navigation page 3
Rockingham
The Colthurst canals
The Inny navigation
The lower Shannon
The piers, quays and harbours of the Shannon Estuary
Nimmo’s non-existent harbour
The Doonbeg Ship Canal
Querrin
Kilrush and its sector lock
The Killimer to Tarbert ferry
The Colleen Bawn at Killimer
Knock knock. Who’s there?
Cahircon: not at all boring
Ringmoylan
The hidden quay of Latoon
The stones of Kilteery
The Maigue
Sitting on the dock of the Beagh
Massy’s Quay, Askeaton and the River Deel
Saleen Pier
The Lord Lieutenant’s Visit to Limerick — trip down the Shannon [1856]
The Fergus
The lost island of Islandavanna
The rudely constructed quay at Ballycorick
Rosscliff: the port of Ballynacally?
Paradise
The cattle-carriers of Crovraghan
The intricate channels at Lackannashinnagh
Under the house of the dead
The Limerick Navigation
The boundaries of the Shannon
The power of the Shannon
The locks on the Limerick Navigation
Plassey
The black bridge
A cot race at Plassey
Worldsend, Castleconnell, Co Limerick
The bridge at O’Briensbridge
O’Briensbridge: underwater explorations
The Limerick Navigation and the Monmouthshire Canal
The Limerick Navigation (upper end) in flood November 2009
The Limerick Navigation (lower end) in flood November 2009
The Limerick Navigation (tidal section) in flood November 2009
Floods in Limerick (1850)
Limerick to Athlone
Shannon Navigation: lock sizes
Kayaks at Curragour
Killaloe Regatta 5 September 1850
The ESB lock at Ardnacrusha
Ardnacrusha and Parteen Villa Weir: construction
Killaloe to Limerick: a slideshow
The survey of Lough Derg in 1839
Ireland’s shortest canal?
Shannon Floods 2009
The middle and upper Shannon
The survey of Lough Ree in 1837
A River Shannon lock: Athlone
Athlone canal
Athlone, steamers and flooding
Clondra Lock: the great survivor
Richmond Harbour and Clondra Canal restoration 1969
The River Hind Navigation
The Grand Canal
Monasterevan, the Venice of the west
An Awful Accident Averted
The Grand Canal lottery
Grand Canal carrying: some notes
The dry dock at Sallins
The Naas Branch
The Mountmellick Line of the Grand Canal
Russells of Portarlington
Dublin to Ballinasloe by canal
Dublin to Ballinasloe 1838
The Ballinasloe Line
A Grand Canal lock: Belmont
South of Moscow, north of Geneva
Water supply to the Grand Canal
The Grand Canal Company strike of 1890
The Royal Canal
Water supply to the Royal Canal: the feeders
The Lough Owel feeder
The proposed Lough Ennell water supply to the Royal Canal
From Clonsilla to Clew Bay
Kinnegad and the Royal Canal
The sinking of the Longford in 1845
The passage boat services
The deodand
Management
William Keatinge’s headache
Who was steering?
Steamers on the Royal Canal
Leech of Killucan: horse-drawn boats on the Royal
Horses on board
Royal eggs
Prothero on the Royal
The whore who held the mortgage on the Royal Canal
Waterways in Dublin
The Naller
Visit Dublin. Walk canals. Drink beer.
The Broadstone Line of the Royal Canal
Mallet’s Insistent Pontoon
Effin Bridge: its predecessors
Between the waters
The abandoned Main Line of the Grand Canal 1
The abandoned Main Line of the Grand Canal 2
The abandoned Main Line of the Grand Canal 3
The abandoned Main Line of the Grand Canal 4
Waterways of the south-east
The top of the Suir
The stones of Athassel
The upper Suir: Carrick to Clonmel
A riverside seat in Clonmel
The Anner canal
Up the Suir
The middle Suir, from Carrick-on-Suir to Waterford
Down the Suir in a railway carriage
The (Portlaw) Clodiagh
The Christmas canals
St John’s Pill
Lane Fox and St John’s Pill
The crane at the Pill
Taking the Pill
From the Clodiagh to St John’s Pill
The Barrow
Draining the Barrow
The Barrow trackway
The Barrow in 1871
The Carlow crossing
The tidal Barrow
The Nore in 1897
Long-distance transport on the Nore
The Slaney
Johnstown, Co Kilkenny
The Brickey Navigation?
Waterways of Cork and Kerry
Tralee Ship Canal
The Lombardstown to Mallow Canal
The Munster Blackwater and the Bride
The Blackwater by road
Cappoquin
The River Finisk
Dromana
Villierstown
Dromore
Cooneen
Coolbagh Quay
Ballynaclash
Raheen quay
Ardsallagh
Youghal bridge
Templemichael
Newport East
The Bride joins the Blackwater
Camphire slip
Killahally
The Cooples
Crotty’s Quay
The old bridge at Youghal
The Blackwater: Fermoy to Lismore 1844
The Lismore Canal
The Lixnaw Canals
The Killarney canal
Waterways of the west
The Eglinton Canal in Galway
The Claddagh Basin
Prothero flies west (not)
The Ballycuirke Canal
The Ballycuirke Canal: Lough Corrib to Ross Lake
The Cong Canal
Waterways of Ulster and thereabouts
The Junction Navigation (B&B/SEW)
The Ulster Canal rip-off
Lock gear on the Junction Navigation [SEW]
Construction of the Junction Navigation at Aghoo
Belturbet in July 2011
The Lagan Navigation
Ballyskeagh High Bridge
Drum Bridge on the Lagan Navigation
The non-contentious Ulster Canal
Benburb: Ulster Canal and River Blackwater
Moveable bridges on the Ulster Canal
The start of work on the Ulster Canal
Prothero flies north
Lough Foyle and the Strabane Canal
Prothero on the Erne in the 1890s
Prothero on the Armagh Blackwater and the Ulster Canal in the 1890s
Upper Fathom: Victoria Lock on the Newry Ship Canal
Victoria Lock: ship-handling
Victoria Lock: winches and rams
Victoria Lock: lower-gate racks (paddles)
Victoria Lock: gates and recesses
Victoria Lock: upper land-racks
Victoria Lock: other artefacts
The Willsborough canals
The Ballykelly and Broharris Canals
People
Major Rowland Raven-Hart and his “Canoeing in Ireland”
Keith Hadden
F (T) E Prothero
King Dan
William Ockenden
Omer and Ockenden
Two urinators in Clare
Alexandra Hope, Isaac Weld and George Dodd
Systems & artefacts
Irish waterways furniture
Dry docks
Shannon Harbour dry docks
Irish waterway bogs
Northern waters
Belturbet boat-building
Why hurry? The inclined planes on Dukart’s Canal
The machine demands a sacrifice: Shannon cranes
ESB pumping-stations above Portumna
Irish waterways operations
A Carrickcraft rescue
Laying buoys: a vignette
Moving a pump at Tarmonbarry
The ESB’s Shannon eel fishery
Supplying Hog Island
Dredging for marl
Snap-net fishing in Carrick-on-Suir
Miscellaneous articles
Flying-boats in Fermanagh
The boat-builder’s heritage
Irish inland waterways vessels
Cots -v- barges: defining Irish waterways
Waterways Ireland workboats
Waterways Ireland’s workboat Inis Cealtra
Waterways Ireland vehicles
Wooden boats on Irish inland waterways
Wooden boats at Lowtown
More wooden boats
Traditional boats and replicas
Seol Sionna: a Shannon turf boat
A Slaney cot
Larry Duggan and the Slaney cot
Non-WI workboats
Rescue boats
Dredgers and dredging
Older Irish working boats
The barge at Plassey
Dublin, Athlone and Limerick
Waterford to New Ross by steam
The steamer Cupid
Liffey barges 1832
Steam on the Grand Canal
Simon O’Regan’s screw steamer
The Mystery of the Sunken Barge
Steam on the Newry Canal
Guinness Liffey barges 1902
Up and under: PS Garryowen in 1840
Erin-go-Bragh comes on station
The non-return of the Native
The steamer Dover Castle for sale in 1840
Watson’s Double Canal Boat
The Cammoge ferry-boat
The ’98 barge
Late C19 Grand Canal Company trade boats
Chain haulage
Ballymurtagh
The Aaron Manby and the Shannon
A sunken boat in the Shannon
Sailing boats on Irish inland waterways
Some boats that are … different
Square sail
4B mooring
Irish waterways scenery
Eh?
In memoriam: the Shannonbridge chimneys
Light
The Doonass bleach mill and Conway’s Canal
Uncle Arthur’s resting-place
Big skies
Irish waterways willies
Engineering and construction
L & M Keating: the modern Henry, Mullins & McMahon
Painting Portumna Bridge
Shannon Harbour houseboat moorings
Dredging Limerick
L+M Keating waterways projects 2012–3
L&MK@GCD
The lowdown on Lowtown
Irish navigation authorities
The ESB and the Shannon
The National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Lakes of Killarney
Waterways body: salaries of officers …
Opinion
The folly of restoration
The Ulster Canal now
The Ulster Canal 00: overview
The Ulster Canal 01: background
The Ulster Canal 02: the southern strategic priority
The Ulster Canal 03: implementation
The Ulster Canal 04: Ulster says no
The Ulster Canal 05: studies and appraisals
The Ulster Canal 06: the costs
The Ulster Canal 07: the supposed benefits
The Ulster Canal 08: the funding
The Ulster Canal 09: affordability
The Ulster Canal 10: kill it now
The Ulster Canal 11: some information from Waterways Ireland (and the budget)
The Ulster Canal 12: departmental bullshit
The Ulster Canal 13: an investment opportunity?
The Ulster Canal 14: my search for truth
The Ulster Canal 15: spinning in the grave
The Ulster Canal 16: looking for a stake
The Ulster Canal 17: the official position in November 2011
The Ulster Canal 18: Sinn Féin’s canal?
The Ulster Canal 19: update to February 2012
The Ulster Canal 20: update to April 2013
The Ulster Canal 21: update to August 2018
The Barrow
The Barrow Study 01: head and tail
The Barrow Study 02: The English^H^H^H^H^H^H Norman Barrow
The Barrow Study 03: the objectives
The Barrow Study 04: the assessment and audit
The Barrow Study 05: action and implementation
The Barrow Study 06: the proposed programmes 1
A bonfire at Collins Barracks
Living on the canals
WI’s non-houseboat policy January 2012
Waterways tourism
Attracting British narrowboaters to Ireland
WI’s Lakelands and Inland Waterways Strategy
Filling (in) the Royal
Waterways widdershins: how to do the Royal–Grand–Shannon ring
Clontarf to Clondra
Guano
The Park Canal: why it should not be restored
The Park Canal 01: it says in the papers
The Park Canal 02: local government
The Park Canal 03: sinking the waterbus
The Park Canal 04: the Limerick weir
The Park Canal 05: cruisers from the Royal Canal
The Park Canal 06: What is to be done? (V I Lenin)
The Park Canal 07: another, er, exciting proposal
Accounting for risk
Tax-dodging boat-owners
Rail
The Lartigue Monorail in Listowel
The West Clare Railway at Moyasta
Lundy Island Railway and Colonization Company
Lady Northcote’s Fancy Fete and Shannon River Show
Argent Brach at Hodson Bay 2004 (Michael Gill) 01_resize
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