Tag Archives: Grand Canal

Back in the USSR

Posted on Monday 13 April 2009 | Leave a comment

I’ve added some photos of Moscow to my page South of Moscow, north of Geneva about the Grand Canal Company’s collieries.

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South of Moscow, north of Geneva

Posted on Saturday 4 April 2009 | Leave a comment

Here’s a new page about some canals that were never built: several proposals for canals to the Grand Canal Company’s collieries in Co Laois.

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Monasterevan, the Venice of the west

Posted on Thursday 26 March 2009 | Leave a comment

This is a considerably expanded and updated version of an article I wrote years ago, with lots of photos. There are traces of three lost waterways to be seen in Monasterevan (my favoured spelling) and lots of other interesting waterways artefacts as well. There is even an operational puzzle: in the days when boats locked down from the canal to the Barrow, and locked back up on the far side, how were they propelled (and controlled) when crossing the river?

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Steam on the Grand Canal

Posted on Friday 20 March 2009 | Leave a comment

I have uploaded a report by Sir John MacNeill on experiments with steam boats on the Irish Grand Canal in 1851. The Grand Canal Company evidently asked him to compare two vessels; interestingly, one of them was a twin-screw boat. His recommendations include a change to the use of canal-boats with a beam of 6′ 6″ and the use of turf (peat) as a fuel.

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Killaloe

Posted on Saturday 17 January 2009 | 1 comment

In Portrait of the Grand Canal (Transport Research Association 1969) Gerard D’Arcy gives the information from the depth sheet for the boat 95B, owned by the Barrow Motor Transport Company Ltd and weighed at Killaloe Station, Shannon Navigation, in 1920. Empty, she drew one foot eight and three quarter inches; carrying fifty tons she drew four foot four inches.

But why were Grand Canal boats sent to Killaloe to be weighed and marked? Couldn’t the job have been done on the canal?

I think I know the answer, but perhaps other people have information about it ….

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