Category Archives: Industrial heritage

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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Crovraghan continuity

Posted on Saturday 19 March 2011 | 1 comment

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

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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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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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Dublin saunter

Posted on Tuesday 15 March 2011 | Leave a comment

I’ve made some changes to my pages about (parts of) the waterways in Dublin. Essentially, I’ve suggested a walking route that would take you:

  • from Connolly Station to Newcomen Bridge and Lock 1 on the Royal Canal, then up the Royal as far as Lock 5 (with possibilities for refreshment)
  • back a bit to the junction with the abandoned Broadstone Line, then down that line to Constitution Hill
  • from there to the Liffey quays, with some thoughts on the Guinness Liffey barges, then up Steevens Lane and James’s Street to Echlin Street and the filled-in Grand Canal Harbour
  • around the harbour before ending in the Guinness Storehouse.

More information here or go directly to this page.

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Splashing the (marine) cash

Posted on Tuesday 15 March 2011 | 1 comment

Extract from the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) Act 2000:

Advances by Minister for marine or natural resources based tourism or heritage projects.

46.—The Minister may, from time to time, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, advance to a person, out of monies provided by the Oireachtas, for the purposes of marine or natural resource based tourism or heritage projects, such sums, by way of grant or loan, as the Minister may determine and upon such terms and conditions as he or she considers necessary.

That provision has nothing whatsoever to do with marine casualties. It seems to allow ministers to splash the (taxpayers’) cash to anyone they favour. The provision should be repealed immediately.

I presume that the minister, at the time when the act was introduced, did not notice the oddity of this inclusion.

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Fry’s Irish delight

Posted on Monday 14 March 2011 | 1 comment

Railway heads may wish to boogie on over to this site to look at a fifteen-minute video of the Fry Model Railway, which is to be evicted from its home at Malahide Castle.

The National Museum thinks saving the Fry isn’t really quite its sort of thing; no doubt it’s busy with its collection of frocks. It appears to possess one model steam railway locomotive; it has no steam engine, no diesel engine, but lots of stamps and coins.

The Fry includes some waterways items.

 

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Intricate channels and interesting boats

Posted on Wednesday 9 March 2011 | Leave a comment

Another of the quays on the west side of the Fergus estuary: Lackannashinnagh, near Killadysert (Kildysert).

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Ulster Canal to lead to united Ireland, says French blogger

Posted on Tuesday 8 March 2011 | Leave a comment

Google’s translation:

A great work that does not really captivates crowds in Ireland, unfortunately, apart from a few enthusiasts navigation, and it is a pity because the symbolic significance of these waterways, crisscrossing the island as a vector of unity, has not escaped the Dublin government has unblocked 35 million euros in 2007 to renovate the Ulster Canal, a waterway linking artery, once renovated, Belfast to Limerick (277 km apart for motorists).

More in French here.

Can it be that Craggy Island wants the Ulster Canal as a “vector of unity” rather than as a contribution to the economic development of Clones? Or that the Ulster Canal is (comme on dit) a Fenian plot? Surely not!

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Goodbye Craggy Island?

Posted on Tuesday 8 March 2011 | Leave a comment

RTE is reporting that the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs may be broken up. Oh dear.

But no doubt its elements will continue the fight to build the Clones canal.

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