Tag Archives: Queen’s County

Backtracking the Barrow trackway

Posted on Monday 4 May 2015 | Leave a comment

Some time ago I put up a page about the Barrow trackway [towing-path]. For some reason, the page disappeared shortly afterwards. I have now recreated it; unless or until it disappears again, it is here.

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Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Canals, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations, People, Sources, The grain trade, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged Athy, Bagenalstown, barge, Barrow, Bestfield, boats, bridge, canal, Carlow, estuary, floods, flow, graiguecullen, Grand Canal, Ireland, Jerusalem, Kildare, Laois, Leighlinbridge, lock, Operations, Queen's County, Royal Oak, Slyguff, towing-path, trackway, vessels, water level, weir

Eeyore’s Gloomy Place

Posted on Monday 12 November 2012 | 6 comments

Here is an article, perhaps by Philip Dixon Hardy himself, from his Dublin Penny Journal of 1835. It is about the Bog of Allen, and the turfcutters living thereon, seen from the Grand Canal in 1835.

He visited a turfcutter’s hovel in the bog while stopped at a double lock about twenty miles from Dublin. What lock could that have been?

Note that Kildare is not among the counties mentioned in the article.

Posted in Ashore, Drainage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Irish waterways general, Natural heritage, Non-waterway, Operations, People, Scenery, Sources, The turf trade, Tourism, waterways

Tagged boats, bog, Bog of Allen, canal, Dublin, Dublin Penny Journal, Galway. Roscommon, gorse, Grand Canal, hovel, Ireland, King's County, landlord, landshark, lock, Longford, Meath, Operations, Philip Dixon Hardy, Queen's County, reclamation, Royal Canal, Shannon, Tipperary, Tullamore, turf, vessels, Westmeath, Wicklow