![Turf boat above Killaloe: Admiralty Surveyors' sketch 1839 [by kind permission of the UK National Archives]](https://irishwaterways.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/turf-boat-above-killaloe.jpg)
Turf boat above Killaloe: Admiralty Surveyors’ sketch 1839 [by kind permission of the UK National Archives]
Houlagan swam to the shore, but it was so dark he could not find his way; he got inside a sheltered ditch from the inclemency of the night, but was found, in the morning, a lifeless corpse.
Northern Whig 26 November 1840 quoting the Nenagh Guardian
Posted in Economic activities, Extant waterways, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations, Safety, Shannon, Sources, The turf trade, Uncategorized, waterways, Weather
Tagged boats, Derry Castle, Galway, Houlagan, Ireland, Killaloe, Lough Derg, Operations, Quin, Shannon, sinking, storm, Tipperary, turf, turf boat, vessels, waterways
… 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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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
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