Tag Archives: John Brownrigg

An abandoned section of the Royal Canal

Posted on Friday 14 December 2012 | Leave a comment

Here is a page about a plan to route the Royal Canal through Kinnegad.

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Posted in Built heritage, Drainage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Operations, People, Politics, Sources, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged canal, Directors General of Inland Navigation, Hill of Down, Ireland, John Brownrigg, John rennie, Kinnegad, Royal Canal, Ruth Delany, Thomastown, waterways

Bring back the Black

Posted on Friday 17 August 2012 | Leave a comment

The Black Bridge at Plassey has been closed since the floods of November 2009. Its reopening seems to have a low priority; I suspect that is because the importance of the bridge in Ireland’s technological, economic, entrepreneurial and political history is not widely appreciated. Here is a page explaining some of the background and suggesting a context within which reopening might be justifiable.

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Posted in Built heritage, Charles Wye Williams, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Irish waterways general, Natural heritage, Operations, People, Restoration and rebuilding, Scenery, Shannon, shannon estuary, Sources, Steamers, The cattle trade, The turf trade, Tourism, waterways, Waterways management, Weather

Tagged Annaghbeg, Black Bridge, boats, bridge, canal, Charles Wye Williams, City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, Clare, floods, Grand Canal, Ireland, John Brownrigg, Killaloe, Kilrush, Limerick, Limerick Navigation, Liverpool, livestock, lock, lost, Lough Derg, Manchester, Montpelier, O'Briensbridge, Operations, P&O Line, Plassey, quay, Shannon, Thomas Rhodes, Tipperary, turf, vessels, water level, waterways, Waterways Ireland