Tag Archives: turf

Lough Derg 1839

Posted on Sunday 27 November 2011 | Leave a comment

Drawings now uploaded. Much more activity in these than in the Lough Ree equivalents, with steamers towing barges, turf boats, the surveyors’ cutter and other excitements.

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Tagged Admiralty, Beechey, boats, Charles Wye Williams, chart, Clare, cutter, drawing, Grand Canal, Holy Island, hydrographic, Ireland, Killaloe, Lady Lansdowne, Limerick, Lough Derg, Nutgrove, Operations, quay, Shannon, survey, turf, vessels, waterways, Williamstown, Wolfe, workboat

Love me tender

Posted on Tuesday 13 September 2011 | Leave a comment

Waterways Ireland tender documents are a source of interesting and occasionally useful information. At present WI is looking for tenders for

a hospitality guide
turf (sod peat) for bank repairs on the Royal Canal
automation of certain weirs. Expressing an interest in this one will allow you to get some original (Shannon Commissioners) drawings of parts of the old weirs.

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Tagged canal, Ireland, Operations, Royal Canal, Shannon, turf, waterways, Waterways Ireland, weir

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 ….

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

Tagged agriculture, Athy, Ballymanus, Barrow, Bert, boats, bridge, canal, Cardington, Chaloner Smith, Crom-a-boo, drag-line, Dublin, Figile, floods, flow, Grand Canal, Guinness, Ireland, lock, Milford, Millgrove, Monasterevin, navvy, Odlum, Operations, ploughing, Portarlington, Priestman, Prothero, Ruston, Suir, Toberara, turf, vessels, Vicarstown, water level, waterways, weir

Championing waterways heritage

Posted on Thursday 25 August 2011 | Leave a comment

O’Briensbridge, covered here on this site, makes the front page of the Clare Champion this week.

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Tagged anchor, boats, bridge, capstan, Castleconnell, Charles Wye Williams, Clare, floods, flow, Ireland, Killaloe, Limerick, Lough Derg, Montpelier, O'Briensbridge, Operations, quay, Shannon, turf, vessels, water level, waterways, Waterways Ireland

Pue’s Occurrences

Posted on Wednesday 20 July 2011 | Leave a comment

I’ve had an article accepted at the history blog. It’s about the capstan at O’Briensbridge on the old Limerick Navigation and the trade it facilitated. There is more information about the technicalities on my own page about O’Briensbridge.

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Tagged boats, bridge, capstan, Castleconnell, cattle, Clare, Dublin, ESB, floods, flow, Grand Canal, Ireland, Killaloe, Limerick, Liverpool, Lough Derg, Montpelier, O'Briensbridge, Operations, quay, Shannon, turf, vessels, water level, waterways

OPW on the Shannon Estuary

Posted on Tuesday 19 July 2011 | Leave a comment

A brief note on the navigational interests of the Office of Public Works on the Shannon Estuary.

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Tagged Adare, Ballylongford, Board of Works, bridge, Ireland, jetties, Kerry, Limerick, lost, Maigue, navigation authority, Office of Public Works, Operations, OPW, quay, Saleen, Shannon, turf, waterways, Waterways Ireland

The Junction Navigation

Posted on Thursday 14 July 2011 | Leave a comment

Here are some pages about the Junction Navigation in the Ballinamore & Ballyconnell drainage district. It later became known as the Ballinamore & Ballyconnell Canal and later still as the Shannon–Erne Waterway.

The role of the cads and bounders of the Ulster Canal Company in getting a canal built at taxpayers’ expense

The construction of the Junction Navigation at Aghoo (Lock 4)

Lock gear old and new

And here’s a reminder of an old page about the Belturbet-built dredger used in constructing the navigation.

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Tagged aghoo, belfast, Belturbet, boats, bounders, bridge, cads, canal, Clones, Department of Community Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, drainage, dredger, Dublin, Erne, gear, Grand Canal, Ireland, Killaloe, Limerick, lock, Lough Neagh, Mahony, McMahon, Mulvany, Operations, paddle, rack, Royal Canal, Shannon, turf, Ulster Canal, vessels, water level, waterways, Williams

Seol Sionna

Posted on Tuesday 21 June 2011 | Leave a comment

A reproduction Shannon Estuary turf boat is being built at Querrin.

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Tagged boats, Clare, cot, hooker, Ireland, Kilrush, Limerick, Operations, quay, Querrin, sail, Seol Sionna, Shannon, turf, vessels, waterways

Looping the Loop

Posted on Tuesday 21 June 2011 | Leave a comment

The proposed Doonbeg Ship Canal. Can anyone produce evidence to show that work ever started on it?

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Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Forgotten navigations, Ireland, Non-waterway, Operations, Politics, Scenery, shannon estuary, Sources, The fishing trade, The turf trade, Tourism, waterways

Tagged boats, bog, bridge, canal, Clare, Doonbeg, Dunbeg, Hely Dutton, Ireland, jetties, John Killaly, Kilrush, Limerick, lock, lost, Mason, Moanmore, Monmore, Moonmore, Operations, Poolanishery, poor, Poulnasherry, quay, Shannon, Thomas Colbourne, turf, vessels, waterways, workboat

Get me a duck punt

Posted on Tuesday 14 June 2011 | Leave a comment

I have updated my page about the designation of the Shannon and Fergus estuaries as a Special Protection Area for our feathered friends. The more I learn about this proposal, the less I like it.

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Tagged birds, boats, Clare, estuary, Fergus, industrial heritage, Ireland, Kilrush, Limerick, Shannon, turf, vessels, waterways