No, not the one in Cork: the one in North Tipperary.
Youghal Quay ~1900
Youghal Quay and Bay ~1900
Formerly used for landing turf from the west side of Lough Derg, Youghal Quay is now a swimming area.
Ladder and diving board. Note the barrier at the landward end
The business end of the barrier
The other side supports a seat
Nice idea.
Ragtime approaching Dromineer
First run after relaunch.
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Tagged boats, Dromineer, duck, Ireland, Lough Derg, Ragtime, Shannon, Shannon Sailing
If you don’t like hanging around airports, Shannon offers you a choice: you can go and look at the estuary instead, which is much more interesting.
Shannon Foynes Port Company workboat Shannon 1 passing Shannon Airport; Ringmoylan Pier in the background
Shannon 1, the successor to Curraghgour II, is a Damen MultiCat.
Shannon Foynes Port Company has updated its website.
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Tagged Curraghgour II, Ireland, Limerick, Operations, quay, Rineanna, Ringmoylan, Shannon, Shannon 1, Shannon Airport, Shannon Foynes Port Company, vessels, waterways, workboat
A poem by Sir Aubrey de Vere, father of the more famous Aubrey Thomas de Vere. The family estates were at Curraghchase, now a forest park, on the south side of the Shannon estuary and now best known as the home of Caroline Rigney, producer of some of Ireland’s best bacon. Sir Aubrey’s wife was one Mary Rice, of the Mount Trenchard family, one of whose members had a major role in the development of the Shannon in the 1840s.
How beautiful the tints of closing even!
The dark blue hills, the crimson glow of heaven,
The shadows purpling o’er the wat’ry scene,
Now streaked with gold — now tinged with tender green;
And yon bright path that burns along the deep,
Ere the sun sinks behind his western steep,
Soft fades the parting glory through the sky,
Commingling with the cool aerial dye;
While every cloud still kindling in the beam,
In mirrored beauty prints the waveless stream,
Light barques, with dusky sails, scarce seen to glide,
Bend their brown shadows o’er the glowing tide;
And hark! at intervals the sound of oars
Comes, faint from distance, to the silent shores,
Blent with the plaintive cadence of the song
Of boatmen, chanting as they drift along.
But see the radiant orb now sinks apace —
Gradual and slow, he stoops his glorious face;
And now — but half his swelling disk appears —
And now, how quickly gone! he scarcely rears
One burning point above the mountain’s head —
And now, the last expiring beam has fled.
The “light barques” probably included some turf boats.
There are more poems by Sir Aubrey here.
Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Charles Wye Williams, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Irish waterways general, Natural heritage, People, Politics, Restoration and rebuilding, Scenery, Shannon, shannon estuary, Sources, The turf trade, Tourism, waterways, Waterways management, Weather
Tagged bacon, boats, Clare, Curraghchase, de Vere, Dublin Penny Journal, estuary, Limerick, Shannon, waterways, workboat
KBSR's Noosacat
If you’re offered any cheap 90hp outboards, be suspicious: two of them have been stolen from Killaloe-Ballina Search and Recovery Unit’s Noosacat.
Great Island from downstream
According to the Sunday Business Post [paywall], an American venture capitalist firm and a Singaporean company have considered buying the Tarbert (Shannon Estuary) and Great Island (Suir Estuary) power stations from Endesa, which bought them from the ESB. Endesa had intended to invest in its Irish operations, but it was taken over by an Italian company, Enel, in 2009; Enel wrote down the value of the Irish assets and wants to sell them off.
Tarbert from the ferry
Request submitted to Waterways Ireland:
I would be grateful if you could tell me how many bids you received for these moorings, how many you accepted and what the lowest and highest accepted bids were.
Posted in Ashore, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Irish waterways general, Operations, waterways, Waterways management
Tagged boats, canal, Grand Canal, houseboat, IRBOA, Ireland, moorings, residential, Shannon, Shannon Harbour, waterways, Waterways Ireland
The Limerick Post has news here.
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Tagged boats, bridge, Clare, dredging, flow, Ireland, Killaloe, Limerick, lock, Lough Derg, Operations, Shannon, vessels, waterways, Waterways Ireland, workboat
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