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Revising the Royal

Posted on Friday 22 February 2013 | 1 comment

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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Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Charles Wye Williams, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Non-waterway, Operations, Rail, Restoration and rebuilding, Steamers, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged boats, bridge, canal, Dublin, Ewan Duffy, industrial heritage ireland, Ireland, lock, MGWR, railway, Royal Canal

Dargan, O’Regan, steam and the Newry Canal

Posted on Wednesday 20 February 2013 | Leave a comment

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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Tagged barge, belfast, boats, bridge, canal, carrying, Clones, Erne, funnel, Grand Canal, Ireland, lighter, Lisburn, Liverpool, lock, Lough Erne, Lough Neagh, lumber-boat, McCutcheon, Moyallon, Newry, Newry Canal, Operations, passage boat, Portadown, Quaker, railway, screw, Simon O'Regan, steamer, Ulster Canal, vessels, waterways, Waterways Ireland, William Dargan

Be very afraid ….

Posted on Tuesday 19 February 2013 | 2 comments

Just in from Waterways Ireland.

Waterways Ireland to Begin Enforcement of Mooring Bye-laws on Grand & Royal Canal and Barrow Navigation

Waterways Ireland will begin enforcement of the mooring Bye-Laws on the Barrow Navigation, Grand Canal and Royal Canal on the 19^th March 2013. A Marine Notice will be issued on the 19^th March to this effect.

The enforcement process will begin with non-permitted, sunken and abandoned boats already on the system. The first step in the process is notification. Continued non-compliance with the Bye-laws may result in the craft being removed from the navigation and stored at the owners cost.

A one year permit for passage and 5 day mooring costs €126. A year-long mooring permit for a single location costs €152. For boats already on the canal system, both permits must be applied for in advance of the 19th March 2013 and be on display on the boat by the 31^st March 2013.

New boats visiting the Grand Canal, Royal Canal or Barrow Navigation for longer than 1 month may apply for the CMP in advance of arrival on the system and must apply for the Extended Mooring Permit as soon as they plan to remain for longer than five days in a single location.

The application process is simple using a form that can be downloaded from www.waterwaysireland.org or sent out by post from Waterways Ireland Tullamore (Tel no 057 9352300).

Waterways Ireland has extended the number of Authorised Officers, who under the Bye-laws have the authority to undertake enforcement.

More information is available from Shane Anderson, Assistant Inspector of Navigation: Tel no +353 (0)87 286 5726, Email shane.anderson@waterwaysireland.org .

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Posted in Ashore, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations, People, Sources, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged authorised officer, Barrow, boats, canal, CMP, EMP, enforcement, Grand Canal, Ireland, Operations, permit, Royal Canal, Shane Anderson, vessels, waterways, Waterways Ireland

Grand Canal Dock improvements

Posted on Tuesday 19 February 2013 | Leave a comment

L & M Keating at work here.

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Tagged boats, canal, Dublin, Grand Canal, Ireland, L & M Keating, Operations, quay, vessels, water level, waterways, Waterways Ireland, workboat

Clones

Posted on Tuesday 19 February 2013 | Leave a comment

From the Clones Regeneration Partnership Ltd website:

PROJECT OFFICER » Unfortunately the Clones Regeneration Partnership Canal Officer post has come to an end ….

Though I disagreed with the case put forward by Gerry Darby, I am sorry to hear of his departure. My main criticisms of the Clones Sheugh proposal are directed at the Irish government.

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Tagged canal, Clones, department of arts heritage and the gaeltacht, Department of Community Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Erne, Gerry Darby, Ireland, Lough Neagh, Operations, Ulster Canal, waterways, Waterways Ireland

Simon O’Regan -v- John Inshaw

Posted on Monday 18 February 2013 | Leave a comment

Did Simon O’Regan attempt to preempt John Inshaw? Here is a page about O’Regan’s single-screw passenger steamer, demonstrated at Portobello on the Grand Canal in Dublin in 1850.

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Tagged belfast, boats, boiler, canal, Dublin, Firefly, fly-boat, Grand Canal, Grand Canal Company, Ireland, John Erickson, John Inshaw, Liverpool, lock, Newcastle, Operations, passage boat, screw, Shannon, Simon O'Regan, steam engine, steamer, swift boat, vessels, waterways, William Dargan

Muffins

Posted on Wednesday 13 February 2013 | Leave a comment

I gather that there is, nowadays, a demand for muffins. I’ll bet they’re not advertised as elegantly as were Murphy’s Muffins in the Freeman’s Journal of 22 April 1845.

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MUFFINS — MUFFINS — MUFFINS

THESE DELECTABLE APPENDAGES to the TEA-TABLE can be had, fresh every day, at 10d per dozen at MURPHY’S BELFAST CONFECTIONARY HOUSE, 157, CAPEL STREET, and 68, DAME-STREET.

NB — MURPHY’s ONLY are GENUINE.

‘Tis custom now, at close of day,
Before the hour of nine,
To take a cup of Congou tea,
With MURPHY’S MUFFINS fine.
His Muffins are both pure and sweet,
At morning, noon and even,
And they are bought in CAPEL-street,
At number ONE-FIVE-SEVEN.
‘Tis pleasure’s task, through time’s career,
To give a zest to life —
The young and innocent to cheer,
The unmarried maid, and wife;
And to enjoy this pleasant treat,
These MUFFINS pure are given,
In MURPHY’s shop, in CAPEL-STREET,
At number ONE-FIVE-SEVEN.
To invalids, whose ailing hours
Bid appetite be still,
The MUFFINS have the happy powers
To meet their anxious will.
And ladies fair, whose tempers sweet
Make earth itself a heaven,
Are pleased to visit CAPEL-street,
At number ONE-FIVE-SEVEN.

157, Capel-street, April 8th, 1845.

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The compulsory waterways link? Oh, er …. Perhaps this to this.

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Tagged canal, Capel Street, Ireland, muffin, mule, Murphy, waterways

The dangers of canal bridges …

Posted on Friday 8 February 2013 | Leave a comment

… to Her Majesty’s mails.

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Tagged arch, Barrow, boats, bridge, canal, Clogheen Bridge, coach, Dublin, Grand Canal, Ireland, Limerick, mails, Monasterevan, Monasterevin, N7, Operations, R445, shinners, waterways

Lismore to Fermoy

Posted on Wednesday 6 February 2013 | Leave a comment

A meeting was held in Fermoy in 1844 to promote a proposal to make the Blackwater navigable from Lismore upstream to Fermoy. Here is the Cork Examiner‘s account of the meeting.

Fermoy railway station opened in 1860.

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Tagged Allin, Blackwater, boats, bridge, canal, Cappoquin, estuary, Fermoy, Ireland, Jones, Lismore, Musgrave, Shannon, vessels, waterways, weir, Youghal

Sarah Kelly and the Royal Canal

Posted on Tuesday 5 February 2013 | 2 comments

Quite the most remarkable story I’ve come across about the Royal Canal and the Midland Great Western Railway ….

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Posted in Built heritage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Ireland, Non-waterway, Operations, People, Politics, Rail, Sources, waterways

Tagged canal, Ireland, Midland Great Western Railway, mortgage, Royal Canal, Sarah Kelly, waterways, whore

Tag Archives: canal

Revising the Royal

Dargan, O’Regan, steam and the Newry Canal

Be very afraid ….

Waterways Ireland to Begin Enforcement of Mooring Bye-laws on Grand & Royal Canal and Barrow Navigation

Grand Canal Dock improvements

Clones

Simon O’Regan -v- John Inshaw

Muffins

The dangers of canal bridges …

Lismore to Fermoy

Sarah Kelly and the Royal Canal

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