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Up the Inny

Posted on Sunday 14 May 2017 | Leave a comment

The navigation of the River Inny from Ballynacarrow upriver to Lough Sheelin.

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Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Canals, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Forgotten navigations, Historical matters, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations, Passenger traffic, People, Safety, Shannon, Sources, The turf trade, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged Athlone, Ballinalack, Ballycorkey, Ballymahon, Ballynacarrow, barge, Baronstown, bog, Camagh Bridge, Clonava, Coolnahay, Coolure, Derryvaragh, Directors General of Inland Navigation, Edward O'Regan, eel, Erskine Nicol, Finnea, Float Bridge, John Killaly, Kilbixy, Kinale, Longford, Lough Iron, Lough Ree, mill, Moygoish, New Port, Newcastle, quarry, Quinn's Bridge, Royal Canal, Sackville Hamilton, Shannon, Sheelin, Shrule, Summerville, Sunderlin, Taarmonbarry, timber, turf, turf boat, Turf cot, Westmeath, Whitworth Aqueduct, wooden bridge

Money from the bog

Posted on Monday 16 December 2013 | 2 comments

To a small extent reclamation is now going on in Ireland; Mr M’Nab, of Castle Connell, county Limerick, has reclaimed 80 acres of the worst red bog, devoid of vegetation and 20 feet deep. It was drained, then coated with the subsoil, and the land which was not worth 2s 6d per acre is now worth 30s per acre.

Thus Robert Montgomery Martin in his Ireland before and after the Union with Great Britain third edition with additions; J D Nichols and Son, London; James McGlashen, Dublin 1848.

I have written here about Mr Macnab (that was how the spelling settled down) and his talent for extracting money from the bog at Portcrusha, which is between Castleconnell and Montpelier, Co Limerick. It seems that his achievements are still remembered — and emulated.

Incidentally, in the same work, published in 1848, Mr Martin refers to the

… large practical mind, great experience, and Christian philosophy …

of Sir Charles Trevelyan.

Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Drainage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Natural heritage, Non-waterway, Operations, People, Politics, Scenery, Shannon, Sources, The turf trade, waterways

Tagged Act of Union, boats, bog, canal, Castleconnell, Clare, famine, Ireland, Killaloe, Limerick, lock, lost, Lough Derg, M'Nab, Macnab, money, Montpelier, O'Briensbridge, Operations, Portcrusha, Robert Montgomery Martin, Shannon, Trevelyan, turf, vessels, waterways

Eeyore’s Gloomy Place

Posted on Monday 12 November 2012 | 6 comments

Here is an article, perhaps by Philip Dixon Hardy himself, from his Dublin Penny Journal of 1835. It is about the Bog of Allen, and the turfcutters living thereon, seen from the Grand Canal in 1835.

He visited a turfcutter’s hovel in the bog while stopped at a double lock about twenty miles from Dublin. What lock could that have been?

Note that Kildare is not among the counties mentioned in the article.

Posted in Ashore, Drainage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Irish waterways general, Natural heritage, Non-waterway, Operations, People, Scenery, Sources, The turf trade, Tourism, waterways

Tagged boats, bog, Bog of Allen, canal, Dublin, Dublin Penny Journal, Galway. Roscommon, gorse, Grand Canal, hovel, Ireland, King's County, landlord, landshark, lock, Longford, Meath, Operations, Philip Dixon Hardy, Queen's County, reclamation, Royal Canal, Shannon, Tipperary, Tullamore, turf, vessels, Westmeath, Wicklow

Looping the Loop

Posted on Tuesday 21 June 2011 | Leave a comment

The proposed Doonbeg Ship Canal. Can anyone produce evidence to show that work ever started on it?

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Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Forgotten navigations, Ireland, Non-waterway, Operations, Politics, Scenery, shannon estuary, Sources, The fishing trade, The turf trade, Tourism, waterways

Tagged boats, bog, bridge, canal, Clare, Doonbeg, Dunbeg, Hely Dutton, Ireland, jetties, John Killaly, Kilrush, Limerick, lock, lost, Mason, Moanmore, Monmore, Moonmore, Operations, Poolanishery, poor, Poulnasherry, quay, Shannon, Thomas Colbourne, turf, vessels, waterways, workboat

Saleen Pier

Posted on Thursday 25 March 2010 | Leave a comment

It’s a long way from Trinity College, Dublin to the pier at Saleen on Ballylongford Creek, on the south side of the Shannon Estuary. But the college owned large amounts of land in the area, including bogs, and turf was one of the cargoes exported from Ballylongford. There was a battery on Carrig Island at the mouth of the creek and a Coast Guard Station at Saleen Pier, which was built by the Commissioners for the Improvement of the Navigation of the Shannon. Read more about Saleen here.

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Tagged Ballylongford, battery, boats, bog, bollard, Carrig Island, Coast Guard, Commissioners, Front Square, goat, Ireland, jetties, Kerry, Kilrush, Limerick, lost, Operations, potatoes, Saleen, Saleen Pier, Shannon, slipway, Tarbert, TCD, tide, Trinity College Dublin, turf, vessels, water level, withy