Tag Archives: Cappoquin

Around the Blackwater

Posted on Thursday 6 August 2020 | Leave a comment

That’s the Munster Blackwater. For some time I have had a page about it here, based on a boat trip from Youghal to (and a little beyond) Cappoquin and on road trips to the Bride and the Lismore Canal.

I thought it would be useful to visit the Blackwater by road, driving around the lower portion from Cappoquin to the Youghal Bridge and back again to visit the various quays and to see what could be seen from the land rather than the water.

I have put up a page here; it has links to individual pages on the places we visited (with photos). You can move from place to place on that page or follow the links on the bottoms of the individual pages to follow a clockwise route around the lower Blackwater from Cappoquin to the Youghal Bridge on the east side and back up on the west side.

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Tagged Blackwater, Cappoquin, Lismore, Munster Blackwater, Youghal

Ballygalane on the Blackwater

Posted on Tuesday 21 April 2015 | Leave a comment

Lismore Canal lock 28_resize

The Lismore Canal lock

The only lock on the Lismore Canal is at Ballygalane, on the River Blackwater. Here is a new page about the canal, with photos of some of its important features.

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Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Canals, Drainage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Ireland, People, The grain trade, waterways, Waterways management, Weather

Tagged Ballygalane, barge, Blackwater, boats, bridge, canal, Cappoquin, Chapman, floods, flow, Henry Bowman, Ireland, Jessop, lighter, Lismore, lock, lost, Niall O'Brien, Operations, Tallow, vessels, waterways, Youghal

Was the Brickey a navigation?

Posted on Sunday 12 April 2015 | Leave a comment

The Brickey is a small river that flows into Dungarvan Bay. Small boats used its lower, tidal reaches, but in the eighteenth century there was a proposal to link the Brickey to the Finisk, another small river that flows into the Blackwater south of Cappoquin.

Waterford County Museum, and others, believe that work began on that project in the mid nineteenth century and that a driveable track along the south bank of a stretch of the river was built as a towpath.

I have visited the river and looked online for further information; my conclusions (with maps and photographs) are here. However, I would welcome further information.

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Tagged Admiralty, Blackwater, Brickey, Cappoquin, Dungarvan, Finisk, Ireland, Musgrave, quay, Roberts, sand, towpath, Waterford

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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Posted in Ashore, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Non-waterway, Operations, People, Politics, Rail, Shannon, Sources, Steamers, waterways

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

The Munster Blackwater …

Posted on Tuesday 6 November 2012 | 3 comments

… from water level: an account of a swim down the river.

Posted in Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Ireland, People, Water sports activities, waterways

Tagged Blackwater, Cappoquin, Fermoy, Lismore, Youghal

Most popular waterway

Posted on Tuesday 6 March 2012 | Leave a comment

Ballynatray House ...

The waterway page that has received most visits since this website was set up is that covering the Bride, the Munster Blackwater and the Lismore Canal.

... and boathouse on the Blackwater

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Tagged Ballynatray, Blackwater, boats, Bride, Cappoquin, Ireland, Lismore, Munster, waterways, Youghal

Prothero on the Munster Blackwater

Posted on Wednesday 29 February 2012 | Leave a comment

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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Tagged Blackwater, boats, Bride, bridge, canal, Cappoquin, F E Prothero, Ireland, Lismore, lost, M V Maeve, Tony Galagher, vessels, waterways, Youghal