Tag Archives: waterways

Optimists …

Posted on Tuesday 13 September 2011 | Leave a comment

… in Clones.

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Posted in Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Restoration and rebuilding, Tourism, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged canal, Clones, Department of Community Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Erne, Ireland, Lough Neagh, Ulster Canal, waterways, Waterways Ireland

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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Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Irish waterways general, Operations, Restoration and rebuilding, Scenery, Sources, The turf trade, Tourism, waterways, Waterways management

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

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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Posted in Built heritage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Natural heritage, Operations, People, Politics, Suir, Tourism, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged boats, canal, Grand Canal, Ireland, Operations, river café, Royal Canal, Suir, Water Framework Directive, waterways, Waterways Forward, Waterways Ireland

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

Uncle Gaybo …

Posted on Sunday 28 August 2011 | Leave a comment

… bigs it up for the Barrow, specifically a walk from Graiguenamanagh to St Mullins.

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Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Natural heritage, Tourism, Water sports activities, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged Barrow, Graiguenamanagh, Ireland, lock, St Mullins, waterways, Waterways Ireland

Forts, weirs, piers, power stations …

Posted on Friday 26 August 2011 | Leave a comment

… just some of the things you can see from the Killimer to Tarbert ferry.

Actually, I lied about the weirs, but they were there once. As were the salmon.

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Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Charles Wye Williams, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Irish waterways general, Natural heritage, Non-waterway, Operations, Scenery, shannon estuary, Sources, Steamers, The cattle trade, The fishing trade, The turf trade, Tourism, waterways, Waterways management, Weather

Tagged battery, boats, Clare, Endesa, ESB, estuary, ferry, flow, fort, Ireland, jetties, Kerry, Kilkerin, Killaloe, Killimer, Kilrush, lighthouse, Limerick, Napoleon, Operations, power station, quay, redoubt, Shannon, Tarbert, Tarbert Race, Tarbert Roads, vessels, waterways, weir, workboat

The Colleen Bawn …

Posted on Thursday 25 August 2011 | Leave a comment

… is buried at Killimer.

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Posted in Ashore, Ireland, People, shannon estuary, waterways

Tagged boats, Colleen Bawn, Ellen Hanley, Ireland, Killimer, Oeter O'Connell, Shannon, shannon estuary, Tarbert, waterways

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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Posted in Built heritage, Charles Wye Williams, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Irish waterways general, Operations, People, Politics, Restoration and rebuilding, Steamers, The cattle trade, The turf trade, Tourism, waterways, Waterways management

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

A la recherche …

Posted on Tuesday 23 August 2011 | Leave a comment

… and the episode of the Madelen. Heavy lifting from the slipway at Cappa Pier, Kilrush, to Hog Island.

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Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations, People, Scenery, shannon estuary, waterways

Tagged boats, Cappa, Clare, estuary, Hog Island, Ireland, Kilrush, Limerick, Madelen, Operations, Scattery, Shannon, vessels, waterways, workboat

The drowning of the Celtic Tiger

Posted on Monday 22 August 2011 | Leave a comment

Valerie Anex’s photos of ghost estates, many on the Upper Shannon and the Shannon–Erne Waterway, are worth a look. Flash is required. Some more of them here, where you can see them in high resolution.

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Posted in Ashore, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Ireland, Irish waterways general, Operations, Politics, Scenery, Tourism, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged builders, Celtic Tiger, ghost estates, Ireland, Keshcarrigan, Rooskey, Roosky, scenery, Shannon, Shannon–Erne Waterway, Valerie Anex, waterways