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  • Waterways & past uses
    • Saving the nation
      • The Shannon Navigation 1786
      • The Shannon in 1792
    • Turf and bog navigations
      • The Bog of Allen from the Grand Canal in 1835
      • John’s Canal, Castleconnell
      • The Canal at the World’s End
      • The Finnery River navigation
      • The Lough Boora Feeder
      • The Little Brosna
      • The Lullymore canal as wasn’t
      • The Roscrea canals
      • The Monivea navigations
      • Lacy’s Canal
      • The Rockville Navigation page 1
        • Down the Rockville
      • The Rockville Navigation page 2
      • The Rockville Navigation page 3
      • Rockingham
      • The Colthurst canals
      • The Inny navigation
    • The lower Shannon
      • The piers, quays and harbours of the Shannon Estuary
        • Nimmo’s non-existent harbour
        • The Doonbeg Ship Canal
        • Querrin
        • Kilrush and its sector lock
        • The Killimer to Tarbert ferry
        • The Colleen Bawn at Killimer
        • Knock knock. Who’s there?
        • Cahircon: not at all boring
        • Ringmoylan
        • The hidden quay of Latoon
        • The stones of Kilteery
        • The Maigue
        • Sitting on the dock of the Beagh
        • Massy’s Quay, Askeaton and the River Deel
        • Saleen Pier
        • The Lord Lieutenant’s Visit to Limerick — trip down the Shannon [1856]
      • The Fergus
        • The lost island of Islandavanna
        • The rudely constructed quay at Ballycorick
        • Rosscliff: the port of Ballynacally?
        • Paradise
        • The cattle-carriers of Crovraghan
        • The intricate channels at Lackannashinnagh
        • Under the house of the dead
      • The Limerick Navigation
        • The boundaries of the Shannon
        • The power of the Shannon
        • The locks on the Limerick Navigation
        • Plassey
          • The black bridge
          • A cot race at Plassey
        • Worldsend, Castleconnell, Co Limerick
        • The bridge at O’Briensbridge
          • O’Briensbridge: underwater explorations
        • The Limerick Navigation and the Monmouthshire Canal
        • The Limerick Navigation (upper end) in flood November 2009
        • The Limerick Navigation (lower end) in flood November 2009
        • The Limerick Navigation (tidal section) in flood November 2009
        • Floods in Limerick (1850)
      • Limerick to Athlone
        • Shannon Navigation: lock sizes
        • Kayaks at Curragour
        • Killaloe Regatta 5 September 1850
        • The ESB lock at Ardnacrusha
          • Ardnacrusha and Parteen Villa Weir: construction
          • Killaloe to Limerick: a slideshow
        • The survey of Lough Derg in 1839
        • Ireland’s shortest canal?
        • Shannon Floods 2009
    • The middle and upper Shannon
      • The survey of Lough Ree in 1837
      • A River Shannon lock: Athlone
      • Athlone canal
      • Athlone, steamers and flooding
      • Clondra Lock: the great survivor
        • Richmond Harbour and Clondra Canal restoration 1969
      • The River Hind Navigation
    • The Grand Canal
      • Monasterevan, the Venice of the west
        • An Awful Accident Averted
      • The Grand Canal lottery
      • Grand Canal carrying: some notes
      • The dry dock at Sallins
      • The Naas Branch
      • The Mountmellick Line of the Grand Canal
        • Russells of Portarlington
      • Dublin to Ballinasloe by canal
        • Dublin to Ballinasloe 1838
      • The Ballinasloe Line
      • A Grand Canal lock: Belmont
      • South of Moscow, north of Geneva
      • Water supply to the Grand Canal
      • The Grand Canal Company strike of 1890
    • The Royal Canal
      • Water supply to the Royal Canal: the feeders
      • The Lough Owel feeder
      • The proposed Lough Ennell water supply to the Royal Canal
      • From Clonsilla to Clew Bay
      • Kinnegad and the Royal Canal
      • The sinking of the Longford in 1845
        • The passage boat services
        • The deodand
        • Management
        • William Keatinge’s headache
        • Who was steering?
      • Steamers on the Royal Canal
      • Leech of Killucan: horse-drawn boats on the Royal
      • Horses on board
      • Royal eggs
      • Prothero on the Royal
      • The whore who held the mortgage on the Royal Canal
    • Waterways in Dublin
      • The Naller
      • Visit Dublin. Walk canals. Drink beer.
      • The Broadstone Line of the Royal Canal
        • Mallet’s Insistent Pontoon
      • Effin Bridge: its predecessors
      • Between the waters
      • The abandoned Main Line of the Grand Canal 1
      • The abandoned Main Line of the Grand Canal 2
      • The abandoned Main Line of the Grand Canal 3
      • The abandoned Main Line of the Grand Canal 4
    • Waterways of the south-east
      • The top of the Suir
        • The stones of Athassel
      • The upper Suir: Carrick to Clonmel
        • A riverside seat in Clonmel
        • The Anner canal
        • Up the Suir
      • The middle Suir, from Carrick-on-Suir to Waterford
        • Down the Suir in a railway carriage
        • The (Portlaw) Clodiagh
        • The Christmas canals
        • St John’s Pill
          • Lane Fox and St John’s Pill
          • The crane at the Pill
          • Taking the Pill
          • From the Clodiagh to St John’s Pill
      • The Barrow
        • Draining the Barrow
        • The Barrow trackway
        • The Barrow in 1871
        • The Carlow crossing
        • The tidal Barrow
      • The Nore in 1897
      • Long-distance transport on the Nore
      • The Slaney
      • Johnstown, Co Kilkenny
      • The Brickey Navigation?
    • Waterways of Cork and Kerry
      • Tralee Ship Canal
      • The Lombardstown to Mallow Canal
      • The Munster Blackwater and the Bride
        • The Blackwater by road
          • Cappoquin
          • The River Finisk
          • Dromana
          • Villierstown
          • Dromore
          • Cooneen
          • Coolbagh Quay
          • Ballynaclash
          • Raheen quay
          • Ardsallagh
          • Youghal bridge
          • Templemichael
          • Newport East
          • The Bride joins the Blackwater
          • Camphire slip
          • Killahally
          • The Cooples
          • Crotty’s Quay
        • The old bridge at Youghal
        • The Blackwater: Fermoy to Lismore 1844
        • The Lismore Canal
      • The Lixnaw Canals
      • The Killarney canal
    • Waterways of the west
      • The Eglinton Canal in Galway
      • The Claddagh Basin
      • Prothero flies west (not)
      • The Ballycuirke Canal
        • The Ballycuirke Canal: Lough Corrib to Ross Lake
      • The Cong Canal
    • Waterways of Ulster and thereabouts
      • The Junction Navigation (B&B/SEW)
        • The Ulster Canal rip-off
        • Lock gear on the Junction Navigation [SEW]
        • Construction of the Junction Navigation at Aghoo
        • Belturbet in July 2011
      • The Lagan Navigation
        • Ballyskeagh High Bridge
        • Drum Bridge on the Lagan Navigation
      • The non-contentious Ulster Canal
        • Benburb: Ulster Canal and River Blackwater
        • Moveable bridges on the Ulster Canal
        • The start of work on the Ulster Canal
      • Prothero flies north
        • Lough Foyle and the Strabane Canal
        • Prothero on the Erne in the 1890s
        • Prothero on the Armagh Blackwater and the Ulster Canal in the 1890s
      • Upper Fathom: Victoria Lock on the Newry Ship Canal
        • Victoria Lock: ship-handling
        • Victoria Lock: winches and rams
        • Victoria Lock: lower-gate racks (paddles)
        • Victoria Lock: gates and recesses
        • Victoria Lock: upper land-racks
        • Victoria Lock: other artefacts
      • The Willsborough canals
      • The Ballykelly and Broharris Canals
  • People
    • Major Rowland Raven-Hart and his “Canoeing in Ireland”
    • Keith Hadden
    • F (T) E Prothero
    • King Dan
    • William Ockenden
      • Omer and Ockenden
    • Two urinators in Clare
    • Alexandra Hope, Isaac Weld and George Dodd
  • Systems & artefacts
    • Irish waterways furniture
      • Dry docks
        • Shannon Harbour dry docks
      • Irish waterway bogs
      • Northern waters
        • Belturbet boat-building
        • Why hurry? The inclined planes on Dukart’s Canal
      • The machine demands a sacrifice: Shannon cranes
      • ESB pumping-stations above Portumna
    • Irish waterways operations
      • A Carrickcraft rescue
      • Laying buoys: a vignette
      • Moving a pump at Tarmonbarry
      • The ESB’s Shannon eel fishery
      • Supplying Hog Island
      • Dredging for marl
      • Snap-net fishing in Carrick-on-Suir
    • Miscellaneous articles
      • Flying-boats in Fermanagh
      • The boat-builder’s heritage
    • Irish inland waterways vessels
      • Cots -v- barges: defining Irish waterways
      • Waterways Ireland workboats
        • Waterways Ireland’s workboat Inis Cealtra
        • Waterways Ireland vehicles
      • Wooden boats on Irish inland waterways
        • Wooden boats at Lowtown
        • More wooden boats
      • Traditional boats and replicas
        • Seol Sionna: a Shannon turf boat
        • A Slaney cot
          • Larry Duggan and the Slaney cot
      • Non-WI workboats
        • Rescue boats
        • Dredgers and dredging
      • Older Irish working boats
        • The barge at Plassey
        • Dublin, Athlone and Limerick
        • Waterford to New Ross by steam
        • The steamer Cupid
        • Liffey barges 1832
        • Steam on the Grand Canal
          • Simon O’Regan’s screw steamer
        • The Mystery of the Sunken Barge
        • Steam on the Newry Canal
        • Guinness Liffey barges 1902
        • Up and under: PS Garryowen in 1840
          • Erin-go-Bragh comes on station
          • The non-return of the Native
          • The steamer Dover Castle for sale in 1840
        • Watson’s Double Canal Boat
        • The Cammoge ferry-boat
        • The ’98 barge
        • Late C19 Grand Canal Company trade boats
        • Chain haulage
        • Ballymurtagh
        • The Aaron Manby and the Shannon
        • A sunken boat in the Shannon
      • Sailing boats on Irish inland waterways
      • Some boats that are … different
      • Square sail
      • 4B mooring
    • Irish waterways scenery
      • Eh?
      • In memoriam: the Shannonbridge chimneys
      • Light
      • The Doonass bleach mill and Conway’s Canal
      • Uncle Arthur’s resting-place
      • Big skies
      • Irish waterways willies
    • Engineering and construction
      • L & M Keating: the modern Henry, Mullins & McMahon
        • Painting Portumna Bridge
        • Shannon Harbour houseboat moorings
        • Dredging Limerick
        • L+M Keating waterways projects 2012–3
        • L&MK@GCD
        • The lowdown on Lowtown
    • Irish navigation authorities
      • The ESB and the Shannon
      • The National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Lakes of Killarney
      • Waterways body: salaries of officers …
  • Opinion
    • The folly of restoration
    • The Ulster Canal now
      • The Ulster Canal 00: overview
      • The Ulster Canal 01: background
      • The Ulster Canal 02: the southern strategic priority
      • The Ulster Canal 03: implementation
      • The Ulster Canal 04: Ulster says no
      • The Ulster Canal 05: studies and appraisals
      • The Ulster Canal 06: the costs
      • The Ulster Canal 07: the supposed benefits
      • The Ulster Canal 08: the funding
      • The Ulster Canal 09: affordability
      • The Ulster Canal 10: kill it now
      • The Ulster Canal 11: some information from Waterways Ireland (and the budget)
      • The Ulster Canal 12: departmental bullshit
      • The Ulster Canal 13: an investment opportunity?
      • The Ulster Canal 14: my search for truth
      • The Ulster Canal 15: spinning in the grave
      • The Ulster Canal 16: looking for a stake
      • The Ulster Canal 17: the official position in November 2011
      • The Ulster Canal 18: Sinn Féin’s canal?
      • The Ulster Canal 19: update to February 2012
      • The Ulster Canal 20: update to April 2013
      • The Ulster Canal 21: update to August 2018
    • The Barrow
      • The Barrow Study 01: head and tail
      • The Barrow Study 02: The English^H^H^H^H^H^H Norman Barrow
      • The Barrow Study 03: the objectives
      • The Barrow Study 04: the assessment and audit
      • The Barrow Study 05: action and implementation
      • The Barrow Study 06: the proposed programmes 1
    • A bonfire at Collins Barracks
    • Living on the canals
      • WI’s non-houseboat policy January 2012
    • Waterways tourism
      • Attracting British narrowboaters to Ireland
      • WI’s Lakelands and Inland Waterways Strategy
      • Filling (in) the Royal
        • Waterways widdershins: how to do the Royal–Grand–Shannon ring
          • Clontarf to Clondra
    • Guano
    • The Park Canal: why it should not be restored
      • The Park Canal 01: it says in the papers
      • The Park Canal 02: local government
      • The Park Canal 03: sinking the waterbus
      • The Park Canal 04: the Limerick weir
      • The Park Canal 05: cruisers from the Royal Canal
      • The Park Canal 06: What is to be done? (V I Lenin)
      • The Park Canal 07: another, er, exciting proposal
    • Accounting for risk
    • Tax-dodging boat-owners
  • Rail
    • The Lartigue Monorail in Listowel
    • The West Clare Railway at Moyasta
    • Lundy Island Railway and Colonization Company
    • Lady Northcote’s Fancy Fete and Shannon River Show

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Saving the banks

Posted on Sunday 27 February 2011 | Leave a comment

The banks, the Fergus and the lost island of Islandavanna.

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Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Non-waterway, Operations, People, Restoration and rebuilding, Scenery, shannon estuary

Tagged alluvium, arterial drainage, Ballycorick, Clare, corcass, Dáil, ditch, drainage, Drumquin, dyke, embankment, estuary, Fergus, flood, Ireland, Islandavanna, land, Limerick, lost, Office of Public Works, Operations, OPW, reclamation, sea-wall, Shannon, sluice, water level

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    • Waterways & past uses
      • Saving the nation
        • The Shannon Navigation 1786
        • The Shannon in 1792
      • Turf and bog navigations
        • The Bog of Allen from the Grand Canal in 1835
        • John’s Canal, Castleconnell
        • The Canal at the World’s End
        • The Finnery River navigation
        • The Lough Boora Feeder
        • The Little Brosna
        • The Lullymore canal as wasn’t
        • The Roscrea canals
        • The Monivea navigations
        • Lacy’s Canal
        • The Rockville Navigation page 1
          • Down the Rockville
        • The Rockville Navigation page 2
        • The Rockville Navigation page 3
        • Rockingham
        • The Colthurst canals
        • The Inny navigation
      • The lower Shannon
        • The piers, quays and harbours of the Shannon Estuary
          • Nimmo’s non-existent harbour
          • The Doonbeg Ship Canal
          • Querrin
          • Kilrush and its sector lock
          • The Killimer to Tarbert ferry
          • The Colleen Bawn at Killimer
          • Knock knock. Who’s there?
          • Cahircon: not at all boring
          • Ringmoylan
          • The hidden quay of Latoon
          • The stones of Kilteery
          • The Maigue
          • Sitting on the dock of the Beagh
          • Massy’s Quay, Askeaton and the River Deel
          • Saleen Pier
          • The Lord Lieutenant’s Visit to Limerick — trip down the Shannon [1856]
        • The Fergus
          • The lost island of Islandavanna
          • The rudely constructed quay at Ballycorick
          • Rosscliff: the port of Ballynacally?
          • Paradise
          • The cattle-carriers of Crovraghan
          • The intricate channels at Lackannashinnagh
          • Under the house of the dead
        • The Limerick Navigation
          • The boundaries of the Shannon
          • The power of the Shannon
          • The locks on the Limerick Navigation
          • Plassey
            • The black bridge
            • A cot race at Plassey
          • Worldsend, Castleconnell, Co Limerick
          • The bridge at O’Briensbridge
            • O’Briensbridge: underwater explorations
          • The Limerick Navigation and the Monmouthshire Canal
          • The Limerick Navigation (upper end) in flood November 2009
          • The Limerick Navigation (lower end) in flood November 2009
          • The Limerick Navigation (tidal section) in flood November 2009
          • Floods in Limerick (1850)
        • Limerick to Athlone
          • Shannon Navigation: lock sizes
          • Kayaks at Curragour
          • Killaloe Regatta 5 September 1850
          • The ESB lock at Ardnacrusha
            • Ardnacrusha and Parteen Villa Weir: construction
            • Killaloe to Limerick: a slideshow
          • The survey of Lough Derg in 1839
          • Ireland’s shortest canal?
          • Shannon Floods 2009
      • The middle and upper Shannon
        • The survey of Lough Ree in 1837
        • A River Shannon lock: Athlone
        • Athlone canal
        • Athlone, steamers and flooding
        • Clondra Lock: the great survivor
          • Richmond Harbour and Clondra Canal restoration 1969
        • The River Hind Navigation
      • The Grand Canal
        • Monasterevan, the Venice of the west
          • An Awful Accident Averted
        • The Grand Canal lottery
        • Grand Canal carrying: some notes
        • The dry dock at Sallins
        • The Naas Branch
        • The Mountmellick Line of the Grand Canal
          • Russells of Portarlington
        • Dublin to Ballinasloe by canal
          • Dublin to Ballinasloe 1838
        • The Ballinasloe Line
        • A Grand Canal lock: Belmont
        • South of Moscow, north of Geneva
        • Water supply to the Grand Canal
        • The Grand Canal Company strike of 1890
      • The Royal Canal
        • Water supply to the Royal Canal: the feeders
        • The Lough Owel feeder
        • The proposed Lough Ennell water supply to the Royal Canal
        • From Clonsilla to Clew Bay
        • Kinnegad and the Royal Canal
        • The sinking of the Longford in 1845
          • The passage boat services
          • The deodand
          • Management
          • William Keatinge’s headache
          • Who was steering?
        • Steamers on the Royal Canal
        • Leech of Killucan: horse-drawn boats on the Royal
        • Horses on board
        • Royal eggs
        • Prothero on the Royal
        • The whore who held the mortgage on the Royal Canal
      • Waterways in Dublin
        • The Naller
        • Visit Dublin. Walk canals. Drink beer.
        • The Broadstone Line of the Royal Canal
          • Mallet’s Insistent Pontoon
        • Effin Bridge: its predecessors
        • Between the waters
        • The abandoned Main Line of the Grand Canal 1
        • The abandoned Main Line of the Grand Canal 2
        • The abandoned Main Line of the Grand Canal 3
        • The abandoned Main Line of the Grand Canal 4
      • Waterways of the south-east
        • The top of the Suir
          • The stones of Athassel
        • The upper Suir: Carrick to Clonmel
          • A riverside seat in Clonmel
          • The Anner canal
          • Up the Suir
        • The middle Suir, from Carrick-on-Suir to Waterford
          • Down the Suir in a railway carriage
          • The (Portlaw) Clodiagh
          • The Christmas canals
          • St John’s Pill
            • Lane Fox and St John’s Pill
            • The crane at the Pill
            • Taking the Pill
            • From the Clodiagh to St John’s Pill
        • The Barrow
          • Draining the Barrow
          • The Barrow trackway
          • The Barrow in 1871
          • The Carlow crossing
          • The tidal Barrow
        • The Nore in 1897
        • Long-distance transport on the Nore
        • The Slaney
        • Johnstown, Co Kilkenny
        • The Brickey Navigation?
      • Waterways of Cork and Kerry
        • Tralee Ship Canal
        • The Lombardstown to Mallow Canal
        • The Munster Blackwater and the Bride
          • The Blackwater by road
            • Cappoquin
            • The River Finisk
            • Dromana
            • Villierstown
            • Dromore
            • Cooneen
            • Coolbagh Quay
            • Ballynaclash
            • Raheen quay
            • Ardsallagh
            • Youghal bridge
            • Templemichael
            • Newport East
            • The Bride joins the Blackwater
            • Camphire slip
            • Killahally
            • The Cooples
            • Crotty’s Quay
          • The old bridge at Youghal
          • The Blackwater: Fermoy to Lismore 1844
          • The Lismore Canal
        • The Lixnaw Canals
        • The Killarney canal
      • Waterways of the west
        • The Eglinton Canal in Galway
        • The Claddagh Basin
        • Prothero flies west (not)
        • The Ballycuirke Canal
          • The Ballycuirke Canal: Lough Corrib to Ross Lake
        • The Cong Canal
      • Waterways of Ulster and thereabouts
        • The Junction Navigation (B&B/SEW)
          • The Ulster Canal rip-off
          • Lock gear on the Junction Navigation [SEW]
          • Construction of the Junction Navigation at Aghoo
          • Belturbet in July 2011
        • The Lagan Navigation
          • Ballyskeagh High Bridge
          • Drum Bridge on the Lagan Navigation
        • The non-contentious Ulster Canal
          • Benburb: Ulster Canal and River Blackwater
          • Moveable bridges on the Ulster Canal
          • The start of work on the Ulster Canal
        • Prothero flies north
          • Lough Foyle and the Strabane Canal
          • Prothero on the Erne in the 1890s
          • Prothero on the Armagh Blackwater and the Ulster Canal in the 1890s
        • Upper Fathom: Victoria Lock on the Newry Ship Canal
          • Victoria Lock: ship-handling
          • Victoria Lock: winches and rams
          • Victoria Lock: lower-gate racks (paddles)
          • Victoria Lock: gates and recesses
          • Victoria Lock: upper land-racks
          • Victoria Lock: other artefacts
        • The Willsborough canals
        • The Ballykelly and Broharris Canals
    • People
      • Major Rowland Raven-Hart and his “Canoeing in Ireland”
      • Keith Hadden
      • F (T) E Prothero
      • King Dan
      • William Ockenden
        • Omer and Ockenden
      • Two urinators in Clare
      • Alexandra Hope, Isaac Weld and George Dodd
    • Systems & artefacts
      • Irish waterways furniture
        • Dry docks
          • Shannon Harbour dry docks
        • Irish waterway bogs
        • Northern waters
          • Belturbet boat-building
          • Why hurry? The inclined planes on Dukart’s Canal
        • The machine demands a sacrifice: Shannon cranes
        • ESB pumping-stations above Portumna
      • Irish waterways operations
        • A Carrickcraft rescue
        • Laying buoys: a vignette
        • Moving a pump at Tarmonbarry
        • The ESB’s Shannon eel fishery
        • Supplying Hog Island
        • Dredging for marl
        • Snap-net fishing in Carrick-on-Suir
      • Miscellaneous articles
        • Flying-boats in Fermanagh
        • The boat-builder’s heritage
      • Irish inland waterways vessels
        • Cots -v- barges: defining Irish waterways
        • Waterways Ireland workboats
          • Waterways Ireland’s workboat Inis Cealtra
          • Waterways Ireland vehicles
        • Wooden boats on Irish inland waterways
          • Wooden boats at Lowtown
          • More wooden boats
        • Traditional boats and replicas
          • Seol Sionna: a Shannon turf boat
          • A Slaney cot
            • Larry Duggan and the Slaney cot
        • Non-WI workboats
          • Rescue boats
          • Dredgers and dredging
        • Older Irish working boats
          • The barge at Plassey
          • Dublin, Athlone and Limerick
          • Waterford to New Ross by steam
          • The steamer Cupid
          • Liffey barges 1832
          • Steam on the Grand Canal
            • Simon O’Regan’s screw steamer
          • The Mystery of the Sunken Barge
          • Steam on the Newry Canal
          • Guinness Liffey barges 1902
          • Up and under: PS Garryowen in 1840
            • Erin-go-Bragh comes on station
            • The non-return of the Native
            • The steamer Dover Castle for sale in 1840
          • Watson’s Double Canal Boat
          • The Cammoge ferry-boat
          • The ’98 barge
          • Late C19 Grand Canal Company trade boats
          • Chain haulage
          • Ballymurtagh
          • The Aaron Manby and the Shannon
          • A sunken boat in the Shannon
        • Sailing boats on Irish inland waterways
        • Some boats that are … different
        • Square sail
        • 4B mooring
      • Irish waterways scenery
        • Eh?
        • In memoriam: the Shannonbridge chimneys
        • Light
        • The Doonass bleach mill and Conway’s Canal
        • Uncle Arthur’s resting-place
        • Big skies
        • Irish waterways willies
      • Engineering and construction
        • L & M Keating: the modern Henry, Mullins & McMahon
          • Painting Portumna Bridge
          • Shannon Harbour houseboat moorings
          • Dredging Limerick
          • L+M Keating waterways projects 2012–3
          • L&MK@GCD
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        • The Ulster Canal 00: overview
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        • The Ulster Canal 15: spinning in the grave
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      • The Park Canal: why it should not be restored
        • The Park Canal 01: it says in the papers
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        • The Park Canal 03: sinking the waterbus
        • The Park Canal 04: the Limerick weir
        • The Park Canal 05: cruisers from the Royal Canal
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        • The Park Canal 07: another, er, exciting proposal
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      • Lundy Island Railway and Colonization Company
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