Some chap from Limerick has been quoted in the Nationalist (Clonmel) as supporting South Tipperary County Council’s proposed taking in charge of the towing-path between Carrick-on-Suir and Clonmel.
And Carrick-on-Suir River Rescue needs help raising funds to buy a premises.
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Thanks to Paul Quinn for pics of the construction of the new LUAS bridge across the River Liffey in Dublin.
The Powers That Be
Dublin City Council tells us that “Construction on the bridge is due to commence in Autumn 2011”, which is nice to know, although an update would be nicer. Its PDF has a diagram of the bridge. If you can find anything about the bridge on the website of the National Transport Authority (which is paying for it), do please let me know. Incidentally, I hadn’t realised that the NTA’s reach had extended to passengers on ships, including those on inland waterways.
The contractors
Drilling contractor
The contractor is Graham Projects Ltd; Quinn Piling were working there a few weeks ago, but seem to have finished their end of things by now; I can’t find a website for Hilliard & Hilltwister Ltd of Listowel, Co Kerry.
Looking east from O’Connell Bridge
Looking west from Butt Bridge
Looking north from Burgh Quay
Looking north to the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company offices
Looking south from Eden Quay
Waterways Ireland has temporary seasonal jobs for general operatives based at Thomastown.
Nobody tried the Spot the canal I set the other day, so I must now reveal that the eel weir shown is at the upper end of the Cong Canal. There are many photos and maps on that page.
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No, me neither, but it seems to mean CarrickCraft, which now has Marked Fuel Trader’s Licences for its bases at Banagher and Carrick-on-Shannon, thus swelling the host of the elect.
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Tagged Banagher, boats, Carrick-on-Shannon, Carrickcraft, green diesel, Ireland, marked fuel trader's licence, marked gas oil, Shannon, waterways
People whom I’ve told where I was going today are barred from this quiz ….
Upstream end
Of which Irish canal is this the upstream end? (The structure is a now-disused eel weir.)
Suitable for conversion to comfortable houseboat. Needs work. Houseboat moorings now available at Shannon Harbour.
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Tagged houseboat, Ireland, Operations, Russian, Shannon, Shannon Harbour, vessels, waterways, Waterways Ireland
Another h/t to Ewan Duffy for the link to this Galway Independent article about the proposed Dublin to Galway ship canal. I was impressed to note that it covers Edward Watkin‘s late nineteenth century for a Dublin to Galway ship canal, which would save transatlantic steamers from having to go north or south of Ireland when travelling between Britain and America. It was, of course, a completely insane proposal; as some folk pointed out at the time, only Liverpool steamers found Ireland an obstacle and, being capable of 20 knots or so, might actually lose time by having to travel at 3 knots and through locks on a canal instead of steaming north or south about.
Incidentally, the article mentions the Panama Canal, which joins the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. So which ocean is at its western end?
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Tagged boats, canal, Cloncurry, Dublin, Edward Watking, Galway, Ireland, Killaly, lock, Operations, Shannon, ship canal, waterways
Ewan Duffy of IndustrialHeritageIreland and I have both, in recent times, uncovered new information about the history of the Royal Canal after it was taken over by the Midland Great Western Railway in 1845: a period that, because (I think) of the absence of company archives, is not well covered in published histories of the Royal. Ewan today said that he will be posting new material about the stretch from Lock 1 to Lock 5 on 30 March 2013, so watch that space.
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I wrote here about Simon O’Regan’s passenger-carrying screw steamer tried on the Grand Canal in Dublin in 1850. I am grateful to John Ditchfield for pointing me to an article about what happened next: steam trials on the Newry Canal in 1850, but this time with a lumber (freight) boat.
I would welcome more information about Simon O’Regan or about the use of steam power on the Newry Canal.
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Irish waterways history