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Kildare Archaeological Society

The Kildare Archaeological Society’s programme for 2012 is available on the Co. Kildare Online Electronic History Journal website (which, incidentally, has a useful RSS feed). Its Heritage Week outing...

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Pollardstown Fen

Pollardstown Fen is the source (via the Milltown Feeder) of much of the Grand Canal’s water supply. Here is a BBC programme about the sounds of the Fen (h/t John McCormack) and other aspects of the...

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Grand water

Here is a page about the feeders that supplied water to the Grand Canal. There will soon be a page about the Royal Canal feeders; these will lead to an examination of the current and proposed supply of...

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Old sod

I have long maintained that the histories of Irish waterways and of Irish bogs are inseparable. Here is an interesting piece from the invaluable Kildare Online Electronic History Journal [o si sic...

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Swinging moorings

If you own either of these boats, you might like to check your mooring lines. Barrow Otter between the aqueducts Small boat between the Robertstown slipway and Lowtown Incidentally, the roadway between...

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Delays at Robertstown

Some barges have found it slow going past Robertstown on the Grand Canal this week, with low water on the summit level between Locks 18 and 19. But they’re not the only ones moving slowly at...

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Canal carrying 1846: Dublin to Waterford

Lowtown is at the western end of the summit level of the Grand Canal; it thus has some claim to be the highest point on the canal. It is close to the village of Robertstown in County Kildare. Lowtown...

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Grand Canal Passage Boat Horses

Proposals in writing will be received by the Court of Directors, at No 105, Grafton street, for drawing six Passage-boats, for three, four, or five years, between the city of Dublin and Monasterevan....

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