Tag Archives: Waterways Ireland

Laying buoys

Posted on Sunday 6 September 2009 | Leave a comment

Here is a short page with a few photographs showing a Waterways Ireland crew at work in Athlone, where they were laying buoys to mark a course for the swimming element of a triathlon. Waterways Ireland is the main sponsor of the event and had evidently committed staff resources as well as cash.

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Posted in Extant waterways, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations

Tagged boats, Ireland, Operations, Shannon, vessels, waterways, Waterways Ireland, workboat

Some updates

Posted on Sunday 26 July 2009 | Leave a comment

I’ve added some extra photos of

– Waterways Ireland workboats (four photos down the bottom of the page)

– non-WI workboats (several photos in several categories)

– sailing boats (a single photo taken on Lough Ree)

– traditional boats (three photos of Nore cots).

If you don’t want to have to scroll through everything on each page, ask your browser to find “July 2008” (all pages except Traditional boats) or “June 2008” (Traditional boats).

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Posted in Irish inland waterways vessels, The fishing trade

Tagged boats, Ireland, Operations, Shannon, waterways, Waterways Ireland, workboat

Moving a pump

Posted on Sunday 26 July 2009 | Leave a comment

Some years ago there was a scheme to install a hydroelectric generating plant at Tarmonbarry weir. The scheme was abandoned, and a Waterways Ireland team recently had to get a pump across the river to drain a bunded area. Here is how they moved the pump.

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Posted in Extant waterways, Irish inland waterways vessels, Irish waterways general, Operations

Tagged Ireland, Operations, Shannon, waterways, Waterways Ireland, workboat

Operating the sluices at Tarmonbarry

Posted on Thursday 23 July 2009 | Leave a comment

This new page has a series of photographs showing the operation of the sluices on the weir beside Tarmonbarry Lock on the River Shannon. The process involves a mysterious machine and two disappearances ….

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Posted in Extant waterways, Irish waterways general, Operations

Tagged Ireland, lock, Operations, Shannon, waterways, Waterways Ireland

Updates 25 June 2009

Posted on Thursday 25 June 2009 | Leave a comment

I’ve added photos to some of the boat pages. Several of the new photos were kindly supplied by Tina of Wasserrausch, to whom I am very grateful. The additions are:

– Traditional boats and replicas has a new photo of an Erne cot, supplied by Tina

– Waterways Ireland workboats has photos of the new vessel Inis Cealtra (I’ve already announced these) and two photos of small boats at Munster Harbour. It also has a link to a page of detailed photos of Inis Cealtra

– Non-WI workboats has photos, supplied by Tina, of ferries and workboats on Lough Erne and of two boats operated by environmental authorities

– Sailing boats has photos of the skutsje Nieuwe Zorgen, which arrived on the Irish waterways in 2008

– Wooden boats has several new photos of wooden boats photographed recently at Shannon Harbour, as well as a few better photos of boats that were already listed

– Boats that are different has one addition.

As always, if I’ve got anything wrong, or omitted anything, do please leave a Comment at the bottom of the relevant page.

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Posted in Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations

Tagged boats, Grand Canal, Ireland, Ireland canals Grand Royal, Operations, Shannon, vessels, waterways, Waterways Ireland, workboat

Waterways Ireland’s latest workboat: Inis Cealtra

Posted on Monday 22 June 2009 | Leave a comment

Here are photographs of Waterways Ireland’s latest workboat, Inis Cealtra. The photos were taken at Portumna, at the head of Lough Derg, after Inis Cealtra, built in Killybegs Co Donegal, had travelled down the west coast, up the Shannon Estuary, through Limerick and then via Ardnacrusha Lock to Lough Derg on the Shannon.

These photos are of details, and are probably for the anoraks; for more general views, see the pics supplied by Waterways Ireland on my general WI workboats page.

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Posted in Irish inland waterways vessels, Irish waterways general, Operations

Tagged boats, Inis Cealtra, Ireland, Limerick, lock, Operations, Shannon, vessels, waterways, Waterways Ireland, workboat

A Grand Canal lock: Belmont

Posted on Tuesday 9 June 2009 | Leave a comment

To complement my page about Athlone lock on the Shannon, here’s a description of Belmont lock on the Grand Canal. As always, I welcome comments, suggestions or ideas about anything I have omitted or misunderstood.

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Posted in Extant waterways, Irish waterways general, Operations

Tagged canal, Grand Canal, Ireland, Ireland canals Grand Royal, Ireland waterways rockville, Operations, waterways, Waterways Ireland

A River Shannon lock

Posted on Wednesday 27 May 2009 | Leave a comment

I’ve put up a page with photos of Athlone Lock on the River Shannon, including much elegant nineteenth-century equipment. I find I’m not entirely sure what it was all for, so if anyone can help by leaving a Comment, please do so.

I’ll do the same for a canal lock shortly.

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Posted in Extant waterways, Irish waterways general, Operations

Tagged Athlone, Dinny Madigan, Ireland, keeper, lock, Operations, Queen Victoria Shannon Commissioners, Shannon, Thomas Rhodes, waterways, Waterways Ireland