Tag Archives: Ireland

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

Rockville navigator elected to Dáil

Posted on Saturday 26 February 2011 | 3 comments

Ming Flanagan was the first to be elected a TD in the Roscommon South Leitrim constituency in the 2011 general election.

Ming launching himself on the Rockville Navigations

His sterling qualities were shown when, in September 2010, he kayaked down the Rockville Navigations, with a companion, to check this tourism and recreational resource (which I had brought to his attention in his capacity as Mayor of County Roscommon).

Another person on the side of righteousness is Paudie Coffey of Portlaw, mentioned favourably here; he was first home in Waterford, where he stood for Fine Gael.

Posted in Built heritage, Economic activities, Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Irish inland waterways vessels, Irish waterways general, Operations, Scenery, Suir, Water sports activities

Tagged 2011, boats, bridge, canal, Carrick-on-Suir, Clodiagh, Coffey, Dáil, Department of Community Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, election, Ireland, Ireland waterways rockville, lock, lost, Malcolmson, Ming, Operations, Portlaw, quay, Rockville, Roscommon, Shannon, Suir, TD, turf, vessels, water level, Waterford, waterways, weir

Wooden working boats

Posted on Friday 25 February 2011 | Leave a comment

Could this be the largest wooden cargo-carrying boat in use in Ireland?

Wooden cattle-carrying boat Fergus Estuary February 2011

It’s the largest of three parked side by side. I presume they’re used for ferrying cattle to and from the islands of the Fergus estuary.

Three boats

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Posted in Economic activities, Extant waterways, Industrial heritage, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations, shannon estuary

Tagged boats, cattle, Clare, estuary, Fergus, ferry, Ireland, islands, Operations, Shannon, vessels, waterways, workboat

WI’s Lakelands and Inland Waterways Strategy

Posted on Friday 25 February 2011 | Leave a comment

Some thoughts here. Overall conclusion: must try harder. Why no mention of the Royal Canal? Why nothing about industrial, transport or waterways heritage?

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Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Operations, Tourism, Waterways management

Tagged boats, canal, Fáilte Ireland, Grand Canal, industrial heritage, Ireland, lakelands and inland waterways, lock, marketing and communications, objective, Operations, Royal Canal, Shannon, strategic plan, strategy, transport heritage, waterways, waterways heritage, Waterways Ireland

Consultancy fee? No, it’s OK, thanks ….

Posted on Tuesday 22 February 2011 | 2 comments

How A N Other and I saved the Irish waterways … or at least suggested how Waterways Ireland should approach British narrowboaters.

Posted in Built heritage, Economic activities, Extant waterways, Irish inland waterways vessels, Irish waterways general, Operations, Uncategorized

Tagged Barrow, boats, bridge, British, canal, Erne, Grand Canal, Ireland, lock, marina, marketing, narrowboat, Operations, Shannon, tourism, vessels, waterways, Waterways Ireland

Rowing

Posted on Monday 21 February 2011 | Leave a comment

Big it up for the Irish Amateur Rowing Union (aka Rowing Ireland), which will be descending the Lower Shannon in May. Good to see that they’ll be doing the estuary, as fas as Bunratty, and are not confining themselves to non-tidal waters.

Bunratty

F E Prothero would be proud of them: he himself thought it best to see the estuary from the deck of the steamer to Kilrush.

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Posted in Ashore, Extant waterways, Irish inland waterways vessels, Irish waterways general, Operations, People, shannon estuary, Water sports activities

Tagged Ardnacrusha, boats, Bunratty, ESB, Ireland, Killaloe, Limerick, lock, Lough Derg, rowing, Shannon, shannon estuary, waterways

Contractors

Posted on Sunday 20 February 2011 | Leave a comment

L & M Keating, contractors, are currently working on Portumna Bridge, Killaloe flood gates and Shannon Harbour houseboat moorings. Some info and pics here, with links to info on some projects.

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Posted in Ashore, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Operations

Tagged boats, bridge, canal, flood gate, Grand Canal, houseboat, Ireland, jetties, Killaloe, L & M Keating, Portumna, Shannon, vessels, waterways, Waterways Ireland, workboat

Man at work

Posted on Sunday 20 February 2011 | Leave a comment

Odlum’s Bridge, Kilbeggan Branch of the Grand Canal, 19 February 2011

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I should point out that I am unable to change the speed of transitions on the slide show, which considerably underrepresents the speed of the slashing. Even clicking the forward arrow as fast as possible doesn’t do it justice.

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Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Irish waterways general, Restoration and rebuilding

Tagged Ballycommon, Boyne, bridge, canal, Grand Canal, Ireland, IWAI, Kilbeggan, lost, Operations, waterways

The Lion and the Lizard

Posted on Saturday 19 February 2011 | Leave a comment

They say the Lion and the Lizard keep
The courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep

(Edward FitzGerald The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)

Emerald Star Portumna: boats were moored to finger jetties along this quay

Emerald Star dinghies

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Posted in Ashore, Economic activities, Extant waterways, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations

Tagged boats, canal, Connacht Harbour, cruisers, dinghies, Emerald Star, Guinness, Ireland, jetties, Lough Derg, Operations, Portumna, quay, waterways

When the dusk starts to fall

Posted on Saturday 19 February 2011 | Leave a comment

Minerva battling the current above Meelick

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Posted in Extant waterways, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations, Weather

Tagged boats, floods, Ireland, Meelick, Minerva, Shannon, waterways