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On the Pill

Posted on Tuesday 16 June 2015 | Leave a comment

Brian Simpson has kindly sent me photos of the small-boat rally on St John’s Pill (River) in Waterford at the end of May; I’ve put them on this page.

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Posted in Built heritage, Canals, Drainage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations, People, Safety, Scenery, Suir, Water sports activities, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged boats, bridge, canal, creek, Ireland, Operations, pill, Small Boat Owners Association, St John's River, St John's Pill, Suir, Waterford

Rosscliff

Posted on Friday 18 March 2011 | Leave a comment

Rosscliff is a cattle port on the Fergus estuary. It is not clear whether this is the location of the quay referred to by Lewis and the Parliamentary Gazetteer in their entries for Ballinacally (Ballynacally).

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Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Economic activities, Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations, Scenery, shannon estuary, The cattle trade

Tagged Ballinacally, Ballynacally, boats, carvel, cattle, Clare, clinker, creek, Darina Tully, Deer Island, Fergus, ferry, gandalo, gandalow, gandelow, ganlo, Ireland, jetties, lighter, mud, Operations, Paradise, quay, Shannon, vessels, workboat, yawl

Up the creek

Posted on Tuesday 1 March 2011 | Leave a comment

Ballycorick Bridge is north of Ballynacally, on the western side of the Fergus estuary in Co Clare. There is a small quay just below the bridge; Samuel Lewis mentioned the trade to that quay in 1837, and it stayed in use until the 1950s.

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Tagged Ballinakella Press, Ballycorick, Ballycorig, Bannatynes, barony of Islands, boats, bridge, Clare, Clondagad, Clondegad, creek, Fergus, five arches, Ireland, jetties, John Bickerdyke's, Limerick, lost, mud, Operations, Owenslieve, Paradise, quay, Ranks, river, Sammo estuarius, Samuel Lewis, Shannon, slob trout, Theodore Cook, Thomas Rice Henn, vessels, water level, waterways, Wild Sports in Ireland

Three German officers …

Posted on Friday 2 April 2010 | Leave a comment

… didn’t cross the Rine, which is a river in County Clare, flowing into the estuary of the River Fergus which, in turn, joins the estuary of the River Shannon. The Rine is also known as the Quin and the Ardsollus and its downstream end is called Latoon Creek, no doubt because it flows by the townlands of Latoon North (which is to the east) and Latoon South (to the west). There is a quay there, hidden under one of the three road-bridges that cross the Latoon side by side. Sea-manure (seaweed used for fertiliser) was landed there and Samuel Lewis tells us that fifty-ton lighters were used, but more information is needed about their operations.

Read about it here.

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Tagged Ardsollue, boats, bridge, Clare, Clarecastle, creek, Ennis, Fergus, fertiliser, Hely Dutton, Ireland, Latoon, lighters, lost, M18, N18, pier. three German officers, quay, Quin, Rine, Samuel Lewis, sea-manure, seaweed, Shannon, turf, vessels, water level, waterways