That’s Ballina, Co Tipperary, on the Shannon, opposite Killaloe.
Looking upstream
The ramp
Looking downstream
From the railway footbridge
Photos taken on 1 January 2016.
The pontoon seems to be more severely affected than it was in the last big floods, on 22 November 2009.
From across the river
From the bridge
Here is a new page with a brief account of the Ballinasloe Line of the Grand Canal and some photos of a footbridge that seems to have been built across it in the twentieth century.
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