Tag Archives: waterways

Shannon Harbour dry docks

Posted on Friday 25 June 2010 | Leave a comment

My dry docks overview page had a bad link in it, which was my fault, but I hope that’s now fixed as the Shannon Harbour dry docks

34B in the dock

page is now up. Comments, corrections and suggestions for improvements and additions will be welcome.

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Knock knock …

Posted on Thursday 6 May 2010 | Leave a comment

Knock in Co Mayo is well known, having its own airport; Knock in Co Clare is less well known, though it has its own port. Here is a short account of its history, with some photographs, but more information would be welcome.

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More wooden boats

Posted on Wednesday 5 May 2010 | Leave a comment

I’ve added photos of some more wooden boats at the bottom of this page. Some are unidentified; I would welcome information.

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Additions

Posted on Tuesday 4 May 2010 | Leave a comment

Material has been added today to the pages on

  • non-WI workboats
  • traditional boats and replicas
  • Waterways Ireland workboats
  • Irish waterway bogs.

See links to the right.

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Fiat lux

Posted on Tuesday 4 May 2010 | Leave a comment

Here is a page for photos in which the main interest is the light. More photos will be added in time.

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From the Pierhead

Posted on Tuesday 4 May 2010 | Leave a comment

Ballina and Killaloe May 2010

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Three German officers …

Posted on Friday 2 April 2010 | Leave a comment

… didn’t cross the Rine, which is a river in County Clare, flowing into the estuary of the River Fergus which, in turn, joins the estuary of the River Shannon. The Rine is also known as the Quin and the Ardsollus and its downstream end is called Latoon Creek, no doubt because it flows by the townlands of Latoon North (which is to the east) and Latoon South (to the west). There is a quay there, hidden under one of the three road-bridges that cross the Latoon side by side. Sea-manure (seaweed used for fertiliser) was landed there and Samuel Lewis tells us that fifty-ton lighters were used, but more information is needed about their operations.

Read about it here.

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Tralee again

Posted on Sunday 7 February 2010 | Leave a comment

Tim Boddington has very kindly sent me some photos taken when the lock was being restored. Amazingly, it wasn’t raining at the time. Many thanks to Tim; I’ve added some of his photos to the Tralee page.

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Floods November 2009: kayaks at Curragour

Posted on Sunday 29 November 2009 | Leave a comment

One beneficial aspect of the floods is that there is lots of water for kayakists. Here are some pics taken at Curragour, on the Shannon in Limerick city, on 28 November 2009.

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Sailing directions: Shannon Estuary and Loughs Derg (1838-9), Ree (1837) and Erne (1835-6)

Posted on Thursday 22 October 2009 | 3 comments

Here are the Sailing Directions for the Shannon Estuary (completed before 1848) and for Lough Erne (1835-6), Lough Ree (1837) and Lough Derg (1838-9). They were compiled by Commander James Wolfe RN, who was one of those who drew up the relevant Admiralty Charts. Like the Charts, these Directions have not been updated, so boaters should not rely on them for navigation.

The Google Books Team have kindly permitted me to extract these from a larger document, which was one of those they had scanned and placed online, and to make them available (free, of course) to visitors to this site. Note that I have omitted part of the description of the smaller Lough Derg, which is not part of the connected waterways system.

Shannon & Erne sailing directions

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