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Killaloe and Ballina

Posted on Friday 27 January 2012 | Leave a comment

Nice to see they’re going to get a Discover Day.

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Tagged Ballina, boats, bridge, canal, Clare, discover day, ESB, floods, Ireland, jetties, Killaloe, Limerick, lock, lost, Lough Derg, Operations, quay, Shannon, turf, vessels, waterways, Waterways Ireland, weir

The Ballycuirke Canal and Lough Corrib

Posted on Friday 27 January 2012 | 3 comments

Thanks to Padhraic Conneally, who left a Comment that started the hunt, and to Zara Brady (IWAI Corrib), who visited the site to ask about something else entirely, and finally to Trevor Northage of AnglingCharts.com, who provided the name and other information, we now have two extra Galway waterways to add to the list. They’re both covered, with maps, on this page, although only the larger, the Ballycuirke Canal, gets its name in the heading.

I would welcome more information about both canals. It seems that the Ballycuirke was built for drainage but also used for transport; I would be glad to know more about such transport.

Posted in Built heritage, Drainage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Irish waterways general, Operations, Rail, The turf trade, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged Ballycuirke, Ballyquirke, boats, bridge, canal, Cloghaun, Corrib, Down Lake, drainage, Galway, Ireland, lost, lough, Moycullen, Operations, quay, Ross Lake, turf, vessels, water level, waterways

Prothero on the Armagh Blackwater and the Ulster Canal

Posted on Tuesday 24 January 2012 | Leave a comment

Another extract from F E Prothero and W A Clark eds A New Oarsman’s Guide to the Rivers and Canals of Great Britain and Ireland: Cruising Club Manual, George Philip & Son, London 1896. The lack of detail suggests to me that Prothero did not travel this route himself.

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Posted in Built heritage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Foreign parts, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Ireland, People, Restoration and rebuilding, Ulster Canal, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged Armagh, Benburb, Blackwater, boats, bridge, canal, canoe, Clones, department of arts heritage and the gaeltacht, Erne, Ireland, lock, lost, Prothero, Ulster Canal, waterways

Portarlington and Mountmellick

Posted on Thursday 19 January 2012 | Leave a comment

I have added some photos and maps to the page about the Mountmellick Line of the Grand Canal. Thanks to Martin O’Shea for two of the photos.

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Tagged boats, bridge, canal, Grand Canal, Ireland, lock, lost, Mountmellick, Portarlington, quay, waterways

Russells of Portarlington, timber merchants

Posted on Friday 13 January 2012 | Leave a comment

I am indebted to Eleanor Russell for permission to reproduce four photos of the canal operations of Messrs Russells of Portarlington, timber merchants and sawmills operators. They used the Royal and Grand Canals (and the Barrow Line and Mountmellick Branch) to carry timber cut on large estates to their sawmills. One of the estates on which they cut timber was Rockville, and Eleanor Russell has also given me permission to use a photo of Rockville House, taken in 1913, on my page about the Rockville Navigations.

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Tagged Barrow, boats, bridge, canal, Dublin, Grand Canal, horse, Ireland, Kilcock, Liffey, lock, lost, Mountmellick, Odlums, Operations, Portarlington, quay, Rockville, Royal Canal, Russell, sawmills, timber, trackline, tug, vessels, waterways, workboat

Annoying the neighbours

Posted on Thursday 5 January 2012 | Leave a comment

It would be unfair to condemn the proposed opening of a canal to Clones without also condemning the proposed reopening of the Park Canal in Limerick (and the Newry, when I get around to it). The link is to a top-level page; the first substantive page has a lead to the second, the second to the third and so on up to the fifth.

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Tagged boats, bridge, canal, Castleconnell, Clare, ESB, floods, flow, Grand Canal, Guinness, jetties, Killaloe, Limerick, Limerick Navigation, lock, lost, Lough Derg, Montpelier, O'Briensbridge, Operations, Park Canal, Plassey, quay, Royal Canal, Shannon, turf, vessels, water level, waterways, Waterways Ireland, weir, workboat

The Limerick Navigation

Posted on Monday 2 January 2012 | Leave a comment

As a preliminary to increasing coverage of the old Limerick Navigation, I have improved the section’s top-level page. I added maps of the separate sections of the navigation and distances (in eighths of miles) from Prothero and Clark.

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Tagged boats, bridge, canal, Clare, ESB, Ireland, jetties, Killaloe, Kilrush, Limerick, lock, lost, Lough Derg, O'Briensbridge, Operations, Shannon, turf, vessels, water level, waterways, weir

The Ulster Canal: the departmental view

Posted on Thursday 1 December 2011 | Leave a comment

I have received from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht a statement on the funding of the Ulster Canal; I reproduce it here.

This statement seems to me to be more forthright than statements from DAHG’s predecessor department, which is something I welcome, and so I reproduce it without comment. I will, in a few days, offer some thoughts on the canal’s prospects.

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Tagged budget, canal, Clones, department of arts heritage and the gaeltacht, Department of Community Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Erne, Ireland, Jimmy Deenihan, lock, lost, Lough Neagh, Operations, Sinn Fein, Ulster Canal, waterways, Waterways Ireland

Buried at the crossroads …

Posted on Sunday 7 August 2011 | Leave a comment

… but without a stake through its heart. The Ulster Canal is dead, but it’s spinning in its grave. Its parent department has admitted some of the truth about its funding, but Waterways Ireland will be applying for planning permission for the scheme: there’s enough money for that, but not for digging. Nonetheless, Fine Gael TDs have managed to distract attention from the absence of funding by pointing to the planning application, while Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil have not realised that a scheme’s benefits should outweigh its costs. Return of the Son of the Ghost of the Bride of the Ulster Canal on view here.

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Tagged Anglo-Celt, assets, budget, canal, Cavan, Clones, Dáil, Deenihan, Department of Community Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Dublin, Erne, Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, Heather Humphreys, Ireland, lost, Lough Neagh, McGinley, McLellan, minister, Monaghan, Operations, Shannon, Sinn Fein, Ulster Canal, waterways, Waterways Ireland

Funding the Ulster Canal

Posted on Monday 1 August 2011 | 1 comment

I go away for a week and suddenly there’s lots of information about the funding of the Ulster Canal …. Happily, I was on the Erne, so I was able to read the Anglo-Celt, the Leitrim Observer and the Impartial Reporter, and was thus able to keep up with the news.

The really extraordinary thing, no doubt the result of an amazing coincidence, is that this sudden access of information comes just as I expect a ruling from the Office of the Information Commissioner on my appeal against Craggy Island’s refusal to give me any meaningful information about the funding of the project.

My last letter to Craggy Island on the subject was a request for an internal review of their refusal; as expected, that too resulted in a refusal, which enabled me to go to the Information Commissioner. You might, nonetheless, be interested to read my letter.

I will comment later on the content of the recent relevations and on how they’ve been spun; happily, Ewan Duffy was not deceived by the spin.

Posted in Built heritage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Foreign parts, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Non-waterway, Operations, Politics, Restoration and rebuilding, Tourism, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged bridge, bullshit, canal, Clones, Department of Community Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Erne, FOI, funding, Ireland, lost, Lough Neagh, Operations, spin, Ulster Canal, waterways, Waterways Ireland