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Who built the quay at Kildysart?

Posted on Monday 21 March 2011 | Leave a comment

The Shannon Commissioners didn’t, but who did? Read about it here. Topics covered include a quad bike, a gandalow and a mausoleum.

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Rosscliff

Posted on Friday 18 March 2011 | Leave a comment

Rosscliff is a cattle port on the Fergus estuary. It is not clear whether this is the location of the quay referred to by Lewis and the Parliamentary Gazetteer in their entries for Ballinacally (Ballynacally).

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Tagged Ballinacally, Ballynacally, boats, carvel, cattle, Clare, clinker, creek, Darina Tully, Deer Island, Fergus, ferry, gandalo, gandalow, gandelow, ganlo, Ireland, jetties, lighter, mud, Operations, Paradise, quay, Shannon, vessels, workboat, yawl

Location

Posted on Wednesday 16 March 2011 | Leave a comment

Page 84 of Ruth Delany’s The Shannon Navigation (Lilliput Press 2008) has a drawing with this caption:

A drawing by Edward Jones which it is thought might depict the Shannon Commission’s survey in progress at an unidentified location possibly down the Shannon Estuary. (Courtesy of the Society of Antiquaries of London)

I suggest that the drawing is of Saleen, on the Ballylongford Creek in Co Kerry, on the lower reaches of the Shannon Estuary. The first word written on the drawing looks like “Sawline”, which might be a version of “Saleen”.

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Tagged Ballylongford, boats, Edward Jones, Ireland, Kerry, Operations, quay, Royal Society of Antiquaries, Ruth Delany, Saleen, Shannon, Shannon Commissioners, Trinity College, turf, vessels, waterways

Dublin saunter

Posted on Tuesday 15 March 2011 | Leave a comment

I’ve made some changes to my pages about (parts of) the waterways in Dublin. Essentially, I’ve suggested a walking route that would take you:

from Connolly Station to Newcomen Bridge and Lock 1 on the Royal Canal, then up the Royal as far as Lock 5 (with possibilities for refreshment)
back a bit to the junction with the abandoned Broadstone Line, then down that line to Constitution Hill
from there to the Liffey quays, with some thoughts on the Guinness Liffey barges, then up Steevens Lane and James’s Street to Echlin Street and the filled-in Grand Canal Harbour
around the harbour before ending in the Guinness Storehouse.

More information here or go directly to this page.

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Intricate channels and interesting boats

Posted on Wednesday 9 March 2011 | Leave a comment

Another of the quays on the west side of the Fergus estuary: Lackannashinnagh, near Killadysert (Kildysert).

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Up the creek

Posted on Tuesday 1 March 2011 | Leave a comment

Ballycorick Bridge is north of Ballynacally, on the western side of the Fergus estuary in Co Clare. There is a small quay just below the bridge; Samuel Lewis mentioned the trade to that quay in 1837, and it stayed in use until the 1950s.

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Diesel, gas, turf or battery?

Posted on Sunday 27 February 2011 | Leave a comment

The Irish Times tells us that Endesa, a Spanish company, intends to sell its Irish operations. They include two water-side sites, at Great Island in Co Wexford and Tarbert in Co Kerry, as well as a near miss in Rhode, Co Offaly, and a fourth in Co Mayo.

The Great Island power station on the Suir opposite Cheekpoint

The Irish Times says that Endesa had intended to change Great Island and Tarbert from diesel to natural gas. The Tarbert project received planning permission in December 2010; the Irish Times report was probably inaccurate in suggesting that a submarine cable from Tarbert would supply the ESB generating station at Moneypoint which, being a generating station, would be able to generate its own.

The old Tarbert power station

However, I had heard that Tarbert might have received its natural gas from the proposed storage plant at Ballylongford, near Saleen Pier whence Trinity College turf was sent to Limerick. A pipe from Tarbert might have supplied Moneypoint. I don’t think construction has yet begun.

The old Tarbert power station was built on the site of the Tarbert battery, the largest of the six Shannon estuary batteries and the only one to mount seven guns.

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Tagged Ballylongford, battery, boats, Cheekpoint, ESB, Great Island, Ireland, Kilrush, Limerick, Moneypoint, Operations, quay, Saleen, Shannon, shannon estuary, Suir, Tarbert, turf, vessels, waterways

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.

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