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Marty Whelan, St Saran, Colonel l’Estrange and the Tessauren Ferry
Marty Whelan, a youthful disk-jockey chap with an insignificant amount of facial hair, presents a morning programme on the wireless. One day last week, discussing traffic problems with a chap from AA...
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Ballinasloe footbridge
Here is a new page with a brief account of the Ballinasloe Line of the Grand Canal and some photos of a footbridge that seems to have been built across it in the twentieth century.Filed under: Ashore,...
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Did you know …
… that Pollboy Lock, on the River Suck, can be filled in one minute and fifty-eight seconds? PollboyFiled under: Built heritage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways,...
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The Steam Carriage and Waggon Company of Ireland
In a piece about developments in steam propulsion in 1829, I mentioned Sir James Anderson’s contract with the Irish Post Office to carry the mails on the roads of Ireland in “coaches impelled by...
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Overloaded boat
A Railway Wanted. — On Thursday week the fly-boat on the Grand Canal was so crowded with passengers returning from Ballinasloe fair, that between Tullamore and Philipstown they sat nearly up to their...
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Shannon–Erne Waterway traffic
I have reported regularly on Shannon traffic figures [most recently here] but I have paid relatively little attention to the Shannon–Erne Waterway [SEW]. I am therefore grateful to Waterways Ireland...
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Shannon traffic figures to May 2015
I am grateful to Waterways Ireland for letting me have the Shannon traffic figures for the first five months of 2015. All the usual caveats apply: the underlying figures do not record total waterways...
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Grand Canal passage-boat
Here is an account, published in 1862, of what it was like to travel from Portobello, in Dublin, to Ballinasloe by the Grand Canal Company’s passage-boats — and of why rail travel was much to be...
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Ballinasloe again
Another account, this dated 1838, of a trip by Grand Canal Company passage-boat from Dublin to Ballinasloe.Filed under: Canals, Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Historical matters, Ireland,...
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Pollboy Lock
I mentioned some time ago that, according to its Business Plan 2015, Waterways Ireland was considering automating Pollboy Lock, on the River Suck to Ballinasloe, in order to save costs. Like other...
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