Category Archives: Ashore

Killaloe collision

Posted on Sunday 3 April 2011 | Leave a comment

The Irish Times reports that six people and a dog were rescued from a cruiser after it hit Killaloe Bridge. The cruiser was found to be taking in water. Killaloe Coast Guard report here, with photo of the Emerald Star cruiser being beached at Ballyvalley to stop it from sinking.

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Posted in Ashore, Extant waterways, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations, People, Tourism, Water sports activities

Tagged boats, bridge, Clare, Coast Guard, coastguard, collision, dog, Emerald Star, Ireland, Killaloe, Lough Derg, Operations, rescue, Shannon, vessels, Waterways Ireland

Not at all boring

Posted on Friday 1 April 2011 | Leave a comment

A Shannon Commissioners quay that is not at all boring. Shipbuilding,
barges, mud: what’s not to like?

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Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Charles Wye Williams, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Irish inland waterways vessels, Irish waterways general, Operations, People, Restoration and rebuilding, shannon estuary, Steamers, The cattle trade, Waterways management

Tagged barge, Bindon Scott, boats, Cahercon, Cahiracon, Cahircon, Clare, explosive, famine, Fergus, harbormaster, Ireland, jetties, Kildysart, Limerick, Matrisha, Mudge, Operations, quay, sea-manure, Shannon, steel, turf, vessels, waterways, Whelan

Somebody bet on the Beagh

Posted on Wednesday 30 March 2011 | Leave a comment

A quay on the south side of the Shannon Estuary, with bollards from the H Lee foundry and with a castle for sale. Pics taken on a grey day, just right for a muddy estuary ….

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Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Irish waterways general, Operations, Scenery, shannon estuary, Steamers, Tourism, Water sports activities, Weather

Tagged Askeaton, Ballysteen, Beagh, boats, castle, estuary, H Lee, Ireland, jetties, Limerick, lost, Operations, quay, Shannon, steamer, turf, vessels, waterways

Kildare County Council endangers citizens

Posted on Monday 28 March 2011 | Leave a comment

The Barrow at Monasterevan (or -in)

Wouldn’t it be better if the Council ordered weak currents instead?

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Posted in Ashore, Extant waterways, Operations, Tourism, Water sports activities, Waterways management

Tagged bank, Barrow, county council, current, flow, Kildare, lifering, Monasterevan, Monasterevin, river, water level

Shannon hooker

Posted on Wednesday 23 March 2011 | Leave a comment

No, not a rugby player, but a replica of one of the Shannon estuary workboats — the Massey Fergusons of their day — that carried turf towards Limerick and limestone back, as well as anything else that needed shifting further, or in larger quantities, than the canoes could manage.

The boat is being built at Querrin; see this article in the Irish Times.

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Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Industrial heritage, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations, Restoration and rebuilding, shannon estuary, The turf trade

Tagged boats, canoe, Clare, currach, Dixie Collins, Fergus, hooker, Ireland, jetties, Kerry, Limerick, limestone, Operations, quay, Querrin, Shannon, turf, vessels, waterways, workboat

Who built the quay at Kildysart?

Posted on Monday 21 March 2011 | Leave a comment

The Shannon Commissioners didn’t, but who did? Read about it here. Topics covered include a quad bike, a gandalow and a mausoleum.

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Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Operations, shannon estuary, Steamers, The cattle trade, Waterways management

Tagged Aughinish, Bindon Scott, boats, Cahircon, causeway, channel, Clare, Darina Tully, Fergus, ferry, ford, gandalow, Inishcorker, Ireland, jetties, Kildysart, Kildysert, Killadysart, Killadysert, Limerick, mausoleum, Operations, pontoon, quad bike, quay, Shannon, Shannon Commissioners, turf, waterways, workboat

Crovraghan continuity

Posted on Saturday 19 March 2011 | 1 comment

The cattle-carrying lighters and other interesting boats at Crovraghan.

Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Economic activities, Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations, People, Scenery, shannon estuary, The cattle trade

Tagged boats, cattle, Clare, Crovraghan, Darina Tully, Fergus, ferry, gandalow, gandelow, ganlo, Illaunbeg, Ireland, islands, lighter, Operations, Paradise, Shannon, Shannon cot, T R Henn, vessels, Waterways Ireland, workboat

Rosscliff

Posted on Friday 18 March 2011 | Leave a comment

Rosscliff is a cattle port on the Fergus estuary. It is not clear whether this is the location of the quay referred to by Lewis and the Parliamentary Gazetteer in their entries for Ballinacally (Ballynacally).

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Tagged Ballinacally, Ballynacally, boats, carvel, cattle, Clare, clinker, creek, Darina Tully, Deer Island, Fergus, ferry, gandalo, gandalow, gandelow, ganlo, Ireland, jetties, lighter, mud, Operations, Paradise, quay, Shannon, vessels, workboat, yawl

Mountshannon seaplanes

Posted on Friday 18 March 2011 | 1 comment

Nice to see I’m not the only one who wonders how this proposed operation will succeed. I’d like to have a look at the business plan ….

Posted in Ashore, Economic activities, Extant waterways, shannon estuary, Tourism, Water sports activities, Weather

Tagged Cork, Dublin, floatplane, Ireland, Limerick, Lough Derg, Operations, seaplane, Shannon, vessels

Location

Posted on Wednesday 16 March 2011 | Leave a comment

Page 84 of Ruth Delany’s The Shannon Navigation (Lilliput Press 2008) has a drawing with this caption:

A drawing by Edward Jones which it is thought might depict the Shannon Commission’s survey in progress at an unidentified location possibly down the Shannon Estuary. (Courtesy of the Society of Antiquaries of London)

I suggest that the drawing is of Saleen, on the Ballylongford Creek in Co Kerry, on the lower reaches of the Shannon Estuary. The first word written on the drawing looks like “Sawline”, which might be a version of “Saleen”.

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Tagged Ballylongford, boats, Edward Jones, Ireland, Kerry, Operations, quay, Royal Society of Antiquaries, Ruth Delany, Saleen, Shannon, Shannon Commissioners, Trinity College, turf, vessels, waterways