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The Barrow Navigation Company’s fleet

Posted on Thursday 27 August 2015 | Leave a comment

Here is an account of the October 1871 half-yearly meeting of the Barrow Navigation Company. It is interesting for the information it provides about the company’s finances and in particular about the size of its fleet and the number of horses required.

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Crossing the Barrow

Posted on Thursday 12 March 2015 | 1 comment

The trackway [towing-path] on the River Barrow changes from the east {left) bank to the west at Leighlinbridge and back again at Graiguecullen/Carlow.

It seems to me that there may have been some difficulties in getting horse-drawn boats from one side of the river to the other and I have found no evidence on how it was done, so here is some speculation instead.

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