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Fiat lux
Here is a page for photos in which the main interest is the light. More photos will be added in time. Filed under: Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Irish waterways general, Scenery,...
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When the dusk starts to fall
Minerva battling the current above Meelick If you own Minerva, and would like a 5MB version of the photo, leave a Comment below. Filed under: Extant waterways, Irish inland waterways vessels,...
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Keeping Galway dry
A page about the ESB pumping stations on the embankments above Portumna. Filed under: Ashore, Built heritage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Industrial heritage,...
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Water levels
Meelick Weir today Almost level. Filed under: Ashore, Built heritage, Drainage, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Non-waterway, Operations, People, Politics,...
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L+M Keating again
Here are some photos of recent L+M Keating projects. Filed under: Ashore, Built heritage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels,...
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A load of old bollards
Our London Correspondent reports that the latest and most fashionable souvenir to go on sale there is a reproduction cast-iron “paperweight/doorstop/bookend based on the mooring bollards of Regents...
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Lock sizes on the Shannon Navigation
Some figures. Filed under: Ashore, Built heritage, Charles Wye Williams, Drainage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Irish inland...
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Shannon traffic to June 2013
The figures for Shannon lock passages to the end of June 2013 are now available. The decline continues, though perhaps more slowly. Shannon lock and bridge passages January to June as percentages of...
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After the summer
I don’t really know much about politicians, local or national, but I presume that, in the summer recess, they retire to their country estates for a bit of huntin, shootin and fishin, with breaks for...
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Water levels in Athlone
At time of writing, the depth of water at Athlone Weir is 1.7m. “Staff gauge zero is 35.360m above Poolbeg datum”, which means the water level is 37.06m OD (Poolbeg). According to Bob Cullen’s 2002...
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Lusmites rejoice
P J Norris commented here on the need for a walkway across Meelick Weir. The excellent KildareStreet.com tells us that the drought will end, as a Dáil written answer on 22 October 2013 showed. Michael...
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Big it up for the OPW
I’ve just been reading some particularly nitwitted Dáil discussions and I need some time to calm down enough to report on them to the Learned Readers of this site. Let me just say that anyone who...
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Shannon traffic 2013
Some weeks ago Waterways Ireland kindly supplied me with the Shannon traffic figures for the final three months of 2013 and I have just now had a chance to add them to my spreadsheets and produce some...
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Pumps and crisps
Thanks to Colin Becker, I have updated this page to show the location of the ESB’s third pumping station between Meelick and Portumna: I had known only where two of them were. I have also added to the...
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The Shannon in winter
Downriver from Shannon Harbour to Dromineer in December 2014. It began as a bright, cold morning. Leaving Shannon Harbour after icebreaking between the locks Flooding to the south-east But southward,...
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Shannon traffic figures to December 2014
I am grateful to Waterways Ireland for sending me the Shannon traffic figures for the last three months of 2014. They sent them last month but I didn’t have time to deal with them until now. Regular...
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ESB and the Shannon
I wrote here that I had written to the ESB, on 27 May 2015, to ask about navigation on the Shannon from Castleconnell downstream. One month later, I have not yet received a reply. I did hear this...
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Hamilton Lock
Victoria (Meelick) and Hamilton Locks (OSI ~1900) Lord Dunkellin: Do you know the Victoria lock at Meelick? Sir Richard Griffith: I do. Victoria Lock, Meelick Dunkellin: Do you know what is called the...
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Deadlock?
Victoria Lock, Meelick I like spending the night above the lock at Meelick: a pleasant, sheltered and quiet place. But there is a mystery about it. Last time we were there, several groups of young...
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Notes from the north
Some observations from a trip to the hyperborean regions. Navigation The 2015 edition of Shannon Leisure Development Company’s Navigational Guide to the Shannon and Erne Waterways includes the numbers...
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