Killaloe & Ballina are having one of Waterways Ireland’s Discover Days on Sunday 29 April 2012.
Includes “visitor attractions, water activities, arts and crafts, face painting, live music, a historical walking tour, boat trips and other land and water activities”.
More info as it becomes available.
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The Barrow Corridor Study is now available on the Waterways Ireland — in twelve separate chapters, alas. Catering for folk with two-stroke modems is a good thing, but what about catering as well for those of us with broadband and pains in our mouses?
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All is explained here.
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The road bridge in Cappoquin
The redoubtable F E Prothero, Rear-Commodore of the Cruising Club, wrote just over three pages about the Blackwater, from Kanturk down to the sea, in A New Oarsman’s Guide to the Rivers and Canals of Great Britain and Ireland edited by F E Prothero and W A Clark and published by George Philip and Son, London, in 1896, as a Cruising Club Manual.
Here is a PDF of the relevant pages. I have also put a link to the PDF on my page about the Blackwater, Bride and Lismore Canal.
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A new study from WI and others is mentioned here. It doesn’t seem to be available on the WI website yet, but I haven’t yet finished reading the Erne and Lough Ree/Mid-Shannon studies that are available on the same page.
I might disagree with some of the conclusions of some of these studies, but I very much welcome the fact that they are being done and that WI is developing and promoting the waterways “product”. If only I could convince it not to waste money on the Clones Canal ….
Update: WI have a press release up, with a photo of a chap who has come out in a very fetching garment.
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Some time ago I posted a query, asking whether anyone could identify the location shown in this drawing on the National Library of Ireland website. Click on the thumbnail to expand it; you may then need to click “PRINTABLE VERSION”. I said:
The black object between the sailing boats and the church looks to me like a paddle steamer, but the image is quite blurred so I’m not certain.
I have now seen the original in the National Library. I have also seen a print of a painting that is, I think, based on the drawing; the painting was done by Henry Brocas junior and is entitled “Lord Clarendon’s visit to Crom Castle, Co Fermanagh, 1850” (tiny thumbnail here).
According to the Erne papers [PDF]:
The earliest known steam boat at Crom was the “Firefly”, which is recorded as having brought the Viceroy, Lord Clarendon, from Crom to Lanesborough Lodge [Belturbet] on his visit of 1850.
It may be that the view is pretty well south from Crom Old Castle with its yew gardens (Historic 6″), which might explain the odd shapes in the foreground, but it could also be from Crom new castle or even from Inisherk: I don’t know the lie of the land well enough, and would welcome enlightenment. The church on the right-hand side of the picture is Holy Trinity (C of I) church at Derryvore, which originally had a steeple. The drawing shows the island of Innisfendra (Inishfendra) on the left, after which Waterways Ireland’s latest tug has been named.
Another Brocas pic on the NLI site seems to complement the first image: it shows a view to the right of the other, with Gad Island and with Corlatt in the background. I suspect that The regatta was done (perhaps from a boat) at the same event: the ruins look to me like those of Old Crom Castle.
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Nice to see they’re going to get a Discover Day.
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The Erne in the 1890s, from the Cruising Club Manual.
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… I thought I told you to make it of gopher wood?”
Here is a short account of the Foyle and the Strabane Canal in the 1890s.
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Irish waterways history