Tag Archives: Suir

NAMA and the River Suir

Posted on Friday 13 April 2012 | Leave a comment

NAMAWineLake has a story here. More on the Suir in Clonmel here.

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Waterways power stations

Posted on Sunday 4 March 2012 | Leave a comment

 

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

 

 

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Sailing merchant vessels

Posted on Thursday 16 February 2012 | Leave a comment

Niall O’Brien, author of the history of the Blackwater and Bride, has set up a Facebook page about sailing merchant vessels of Ireland and Britain. Many of these used the Irish estuaries — including the Shannon, Blackwater, Barrow and Suir — and thus overlapped with inland navigation.

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River Suir showcase seminar

Posted on Tuesday 24 January 2012 | 2 comments
Information from South Tipperary County Council

River Suir Showcase Seminar

Tuesday 31st January, Carrig Hotel, Carrick-on-Suir. Time: 3-7pm

Do you have an interest in or love for the River Suir? If so, you are invited to come along to this first River Suir Showcase seminar in Carrick-on-Suir. As well as short talks on a range of river-related topics, there will be specialists from the various bodies that have responsibility for different aspects of the river on hand to answer any queries. Topics include inland waterways, boating on the Suir, fisheries, water quality, water safety, wildlife, the river navigation, invasive species, community and voluntary activities, and heritage survey projects on the Suir and the Nore.

Everyone is welcome to attend the entire seminar or to drop in for a short time. So come along and meet other river people and find out what activities are going on along the river.

This event is a follow up to requests from local people during the Suir River Cafe during Clonmel Junction Festival and community workshops in Ardfinnan, Cahir, Clonmel and Carrick-on-Suir over the summer undertaken as part of the Waterways Forward project.

It is an opportunity to share river information or just to hear about all the projects that are underway.

To book a free place: please contact: Margo Hayes, Tel: 051 642109 or margo.hayes@southtippcoco.ie

For further details on River Suir projects see [the website]: http://www.southtippheritage.ie/riversuir or contact Labhaoise McKenna, Heritage Officer, South Tipperary County Council heritage@southtippcoco.ie

 

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The Suir Navigation

Posted on Tuesday 20 December 2011 | Leave a comment

News reaches us that the fisheries folk, who were threatening to block the Suir (Carrick to Clonmel) navigation with a weir so that they could count fish, have removed the material they had put on site without planning permission. Let joy be unconfined (but let not vigilance be relaxed).

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The Suir

Posted on Thursday 10 November 2011 | 1 comment

South Tipperary County Council participated in the EU Waterways Forward project, with a focus on the River Suir. Here is a brief report on the Suir River Café project.

The other Irish participant was Waterways Ireland, whose project (PDF) was about the implementation of the Water Framework Directive on canals.

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Two more sisters

Posted on Tuesday 13 September 2011 | Leave a comment

Members of the Heritage Boat Association have, in recent weeks, visited Piltown (Co Kilkenny) and Portlaw (Co Waterford) by barge, the first time in many years that large vessels have been up those rivers.

Many of the published accounts of Portlaw, including the Heritage Council’s Heritage Conservation Plan, pay inadequate attention to the navigation of the Clodiagh; it may have been even richer than we thought.

The HBA has a press release about some significant finds at Portlaw.

The owners of the barge Hawthorn joined other boats for the trips and wrote about them here:

Here is the relevant section of the OSI map for Portlaw (choose one of the Historic options). Here is where the Pil joins the Suir (zoomed out).

Here is my own article (in need of updating) about Portlaw and the Clodiagh.

Incidentally, I contend that the OSI maps are wrong in describing the gates on the canal as flood gates: they would open to, rather than close against, an incoming flood, and would prevent the discharge of an outgoing flood.

 

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Waterways Forward

Posted on Monday 12 September 2011 | Leave a comment

Read about the EU’s Waterways Forward project here and download PDFs showing what the Irish participants Waterways Ireland and South Tipperary County Council got out of the project. WI’s project was on the implementation of the Water Framework Directive on the Royal and Grand Canals; South Tipperary County Council’s was about generating a shared vision for the Suir through the River Café project.

Some folk may recognise the canal boat on the WI document. That fella gets in everywhere.

 

 

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Buggering up the Barrow

Posted on Sunday 11 September 2011 | 2 comments

Have you ever wondered, as you grounded on a sand bar or fought a current upstream, quite why the River Barrow is so challenging?

Here is a confession (with photos) from the man wot done it — in 1931 ….

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Deaths at Portlaw

Posted on Wednesday 11 May 2011 | Leave a comment

On 7 April 2010 two canoeists were drowned at a weir in Portlaw, on the River Clodiagh. The Marine Casualty Investigation Board report on the matter has just been published. It says inter alia:

  • This weir cannot be run.
  • The design of this weir made it impassable regardless of the waterflow over it.
  • The weir at Portlaw is, by design, next to impossible to escape
    from without the use of lifebuoys and or an access ladder.

The report does not say who designed and built this weir or when it
was done. I have asked Waterford County Council for information.

According to the Irish Independent, the families of the canoeists are considering legal action.

Some news stories about weirs at Portlaw here, here and here.

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