Tag Archives: Lough Derg

The Limerick Navigation

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.

 

Dromaan at night

Dromaan at night (December 2011)

Lough Derg in winter

From Twomilegate December 2011

Inland waterways enthusiasts …

… will be delighted to hear of today’s victory by Colin Becker, the result no doubt of many years of practice at rally table quizzes.

We are reminded of the Christmas cartoon in Private Eye some years ago, depicting two choirboys, one saying to the other “I can’t believe it’s not Rutter”.

SS John Randolph

The SS John Randolph, described as “America’s first successful iron ship in commerce”, is commemorated by a historical marker in Savannah, Georgia, USA.

The John Randolph was one of the first six iron vessels built by Lairds of Birkenhead (later merged into Cammell Laird). The other five were built for use on the River Shannon.

Water, water every where …

… nor any drop to drink. I had not realised that WI turned off the water supply at public harbours for the winter — or at least at some of them: Dromineer and Dromaan. I must check when visiting others.

Finding Lough Derg

The Mid-West Regional Authority is seeking tenders for developing a “Signage Audit & Strategy for the Lough Derg Destination Area”.

The strategy is to cover

the Lough Derg Destination Area from Portumna to Ballina/Killaloe including the major settlements within this boundary incorporating both sides of Lough Derg ….

It involves auditing existing signposts within three miles of Lough Derg, consulting “key stakeholders” and developing a new signposting plan for the region. The new signage is to guide visitors to and through the Lough Derg Destination Area, to benefit the “local host community” and to provide a “comprehensive, branded, co-ordinated signage strategy for the Lough Derg Destination Area which will also inform and direct signage in the future”.

 

 

 

Lough Derg 1839

Drawings now uploaded. Much more activity in these than in the Lough Ree equivalents, with steamers towing barges, turf boats, the surveyors’ cutter and other excitements.

 

 

Round towers on islands …

their true origins revealed (up to a point, Lord Copper).

Championing waterways heritage

O’Briensbridge, covered here on this site, makes the front page of the Clare Champion this week.