Tag Archives: N18

Western Rail Corridor

Posted on Thursday 10 March 2011 | 1 comment

The Irish Times reports that numbers of passengers on the Western Rail Corridor from Limerick to Galway are at about two thirds of the level assumed in the “business case”.

Well I never. Who could have known?

No more restoration.

Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Rail, Restoration and rebuilding

Tagged business case, Department of Community Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Galway, Limerick, M18, N18, rail, Ulster Canal, Western Rail Corridor

Waterways restoration? No thanks

Posted on Monday 31 January 2011 | 2 comments

An article in the Irish Times about railway restoration has prompted me to set out my views on waterways restoration. Essentially, I don’t believe public funds should be spent on projects that won’t provide a decent return, but I do favour small-scale conservation, opening up walking and cycling routes along waterways and marketing them to industrial heritage enthusiasts (and others).

Posted in Ashore, Economic activities, Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Irish waterways general, Non-waterway, Rail

Tagged Ardnacrusha, artefacts, Athenry, boats, Brendan Quinn, bridge, Burma Road, Bus Eireann, canal, Castleconnell, CIE, Clones, conservation, Department of Community Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Department of Finance, Enda Kenny, Ennis, Erne, ESB, Galway, Grand Canal, greenway, Iarnrod Eireann, industrial heritage, Ireland, Killaloe, lakelands and inland waterways, Limerick, Limerick Navigation, lock, lost, Lough Allen Canal, Lough Derg, Lough Neagh, Montpelier, N18, O'Briensbridge, Operations, Parteen Villa Weir, Plassey, Plassey-Errina Canal, Royal Canal, Shannon, Shannon-Erne Waterway, Ulster Canal, Waterford Limerick & Western Railway, waterways, Waterways Ireland, Western Rail Corridor, Western Railway Corridor

Three German officers …

Posted on Friday 2 April 2010 | Leave a comment

… didn’t cross the Rine, which is a river in County Clare, flowing into the estuary of the River Fergus which, in turn, joins the estuary of the River Shannon. The Rine is also known as the Quin and the Ardsollus and its downstream end is called Latoon Creek, no doubt because it flows by the townlands of Latoon North (which is to the east) and Latoon South (to the west). There is a quay there, hidden under one of the three road-bridges that cross the Latoon side by side. Sea-manure (seaweed used for fertiliser) was landed there and Samuel Lewis tells us that fifty-ton lighters were used, but more information is needed about their operations.

Read about it here.

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Posted in Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Irish inland waterways vessels, Irish waterways general, Operations, shannon estuary

Tagged Ardsollue, boats, bridge, Clare, Clarecastle, creek, Ennis, Fergus, fertiliser, Hely Dutton, Ireland, Latoon, lighters, lost, M18, N18, pier. three German officers, quay, Quin, Rine, Samuel Lewis, sea-manure, seaweed, Shannon, turf, vessels, water level, waterways