Category Archives: boats

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Posted on Sunday 30 August 2020 | 5 comments

Slightly early for September 2020. Lecarrow off Lough Ree.

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Killaloe

Posted on Thursday 13 August 2020 | Leave a comment

There is a new video about Killaloe’s waterside heritage on the Heritage Week website here. The video was made in July 2020 by Joe O Dughghaill of Pine Valley Productions, Killaloe.

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Before there was Effin

Posted on Saturday 8 August 2020 | 2 comments

The name Effin Bridge has been given, in jest, to the lifting railway-bridge that crosses the Royal Canal just below Newcomen Bridge in Dublin. Here is an article about the bridges that preceded Effin Bridge at that site.

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Posted on Thursday 6 August 2020 | Leave a comment

Tralee Ship Canal

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Around the Blackwater

Posted on Thursday 6 August 2020 | Leave a comment

That’s the Munster Blackwater. For some time I have had a page about it here, based on a boat trip from Youghal to (and a little beyond) Cappoquin and on road trips to the Bride and the Lismore Canal.

I thought it would be useful to visit the Blackwater by road, driving around the lower portion from Cappoquin to the Youghal Bridge and back again to visit the various quays and to see what could be seen from the land rather than the water.

I have put up a page here; it has links to individual pages on the places we visited (with photos). You can move from place to place on that page or follow the links on the bottoms of the individual pages to follow a clockwise route around the lower Blackwater from Cappoquin to the Youghal Bridge on the east side and back up on the west side.

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Dutch sailing fleet

Posted on Tuesday 4 August 2020 | 1 comment

Covid-19 has damaged the financial basis for the survival of historic Dutch sailing vessels.

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Sail on Irish inland waterways

Posted on Wednesday 24 June 2020 | Leave a comment

Here is a new page about the use of square sails on Irish inland waterways. I intend to add to this as I come across more information.

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