Cussane or Coosaun Lock was the lowest of three on the Killaloe Canal, which was the uppermost section of the Limerick Navigation. It was a double lock or “staircase pair”.
Cussane Lock (OSI ~1900)
You can see what the lockkeeper’s house looked like in 2015 in the article “A Flooded Landscape Revealed“, written by folk who surveyed the area last year for Irish Water.
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Here is a table showing the sizes of the locks on the (now abandoned) Limerick Navigation.
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The Ships Pass at Parteen Villa Weir with work in progress.
Two bits
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Irish waterways history