I see on this website that the curved building at Grand Canal Harbour in Dublin, is a protected structure.
Here is the roof in 2007:
The roof in 2007
Here is the roof in October 2011:
The roof in October 2011
I have asked the developers for their comments.
Waterways Ireland’s visitor centre in Dublin, known as the Box in the Docks, has been closed for some time. I don’t know whether it has yet been reopened, but it has a new website.
If you are pained by greengrocers’ apostrophes, don’t go there. The main problem, though, is that the website says nothing about what is in the Box. Why “Plan a visit” if you don’t know what you’ll see when you get there?
Perhaps it’s a work in progress, with more to be added later, but I’d welcome information about what’s in the centre from anyone who has visited it recently.
Here are some pages about the Junction Navigation in the Ballinamore & Ballyconnell drainage district. It later became known as the Ballinamore & Ballyconnell Canal and later still as the Shannon–Erne Waterway.
The role of the cads and bounders of the Ulster Canal Company in getting a canal built at taxpayers’ expense
The construction of the Junction Navigation at Aghoo (Lock 4)
Lock gear old and new
And here’s a reminder of an old page about the Belturbet-built dredger used in constructing the navigation.
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… novi Africam adferre, as my old grandmother used to say.
Waterways Ireland’s Marine Notice 45/2011 says:
[…] there will be restrictions on boat movements on Level C5 of the Grand Canal Circular Line between Leeson Street Bridge and Charlemont Bridge, Dublin over the next two weeks.
This is the first time I have seen an official name of any kind, much less an alphanumeric designation, applied to Irish canal levels (pounds). Is this a New Thing? And what are the names of the other levels, on the Grand and elsewhere?
I do hope the new naming of parts works better than this.
According to the Sunday Business Post:
Army and Garda sub-aqua unit divers and armed personnel carrying ribs (rigid-hulled inflatable boats) will also be placed at strategic points along the Liffey and Dublin’s canals to ensure that there are no attempts to mount any attack from the water.
RIBS on canals? Well, that should be useful.
Er … they have heard of locks, have they? I mean, no matter how fast either the terrs or the Army and Garda folk zoom along the canal by Mespil Road, for instance, they’re still going to spend ten to fifteen minutes getting through the lock. And maybe the same clearing their props.
I do hope the terrs are not planning on launching attacks from the Royal: they won’t be able to see out from the bottom of the canal along most of the way.
Perhaps they could all be made honorary participants in the IWAI Dublin Rally, which will be on at the time.
Update 5 May 2011: Waterways Ireland says (Marine Notice 45/2011) that:
[…] there will be restrictions on boat movements on Level C5 of the Grand Canal Circular Line between Leeson Street Bridge and Charlemont Bridge, Dublin over the next two weeks. Dublin City Council are currently constructing a boardwalk at this location as part of its wider ‘Premium Cycle Route’ project to improve cycling facilities in the city and along the Grand Canal route. Due to unforeseen delays, and in order to facilitate completion of the boardwalk, it will be necessary to reduce the water level in Level C5 during the period of Monday 9th May 2011 to Thursday 19th May 2011. Waterways Ireland requests that any vessels wishing to pass through level C5 during this period should contact the Eastern Regional Office on 01 868 0148 well in advance to make the necessary arrangements.
I hope that WI has brought this to the attention of potential terrorists intending to zoom along the Grand Canal to attack HMtheQ and to the brave and noble police and army folk, in their RIBs, who will be trying to stop them.
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