Our Waterways a History of Inland Navigation Considered As a Branch of Water Co
Our Waterways a History of Inland Navigation Considered As a Branch of Water Co
Urquhart Atwell Forbes
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X. , p. 277. Macpherson says (vol. Iii. , p. 346 note) that the navigation was opened in 1761 for lighters and "gabbards, " and describes the latter boats as "small vessels of a flat construction fit for coasting and river navigation. " Cf. Also Industrial Resources of Irelcifid, p. 341. - Cf. Hidustrial Resources of Irela?id^ p. 340. 190 IRELAND AND SCOTLAND The Grand Canal, which has ten branches, and is the most extensive waterway in the United King-- dom, is 163! miles long, and extends sou...thwards from Dublin to New Ross in Wexford, and westward to the Shannon at Shannon Harbour, where the trade boats of the company tranship into steamers which ply northwards to Athlone through Lough Key to Carrick-on-Shannon, and southwards by Banagher and Portumna from Lough Derg to Killaloe, and thence by the Limerick Canal to Limerick. On the other side of the Shannon the canal runs to Ballinasloe, with branches to the Liffey, Robertstown, Blackwood Reservoir, Monast- everin, St James' Wells, Athy, Mountmellick, Edenderry, and Kilbeggan, the summit-level, 279 feet above sea-level and 169 feet above the Shannon at Shannon Harbour, being near Robertstown about 25 miles from Dublin.
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