Tag Archives: Ruth Delany

The underwater underground canal

Posted on Tuesday 4 March 2014 | Leave a comment

Some queries about the Ballykelly or Broharris Canal.

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Tagged Ballykelly, basin, boats, Broharris, canal, Derry, Ireland, Limavady, Londonderry, lost, McCutcheon, Operations, Ruth Delany, sea-manure, waterways

An abandoned section of the Royal Canal

Posted on Friday 14 December 2012 | Leave a comment

Here is a page about a plan to route the Royal Canal through Kinnegad.

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Tagged canal, Directors General of Inland Navigation, Hill of Down, Ireland, John Brownrigg, John rennie, Kinnegad, Royal Canal, Ruth Delany, Thomastown, waterways

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

Clondra Lock

Posted on Monday 27 December 2010 | Leave a comment

The lock at Clondra may be the only one on the Shannon that is in the same place, and doing the same job, since the days of the Commissioners of Inland Navigation in the middle of the eighteenth century. The lock itself has been refurbished several times, and in recent years the lock furniture has been altered to make it impossible for boaters to work their own boats through it. But it has a very interesting collection of gear and it is well worth using, even if you’re not going to the Royal Canal at Richmond Harbour.

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