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The Lough Derg Pinnace Club
Lough Derg Pinnace Club Regatta To take place off Williamstown Hotel On MONDAY, the 20th of SEPTEMBER, 1841. Viscount AVONMORE, Commodore Sailing Committee: John Burke Esq, Tintrim; Chas Walnutt Esq,...
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Extraordinary swimming feat
On Tuesday last Captain Kingsley, who is on a visit with his father, Capt Kingsley of Knigh Cottage, swam across Lough Derg, in the Shannon, from Dromineer Bay to Williamstown, a distance of five...
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I have today sent this email to both Waterways Ireland and Clare County Council. This email is being sent to Waterways Ireland (Scarriff office) and Clare County Council. Let us suppose that, during...
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Better duffers than drowned
We are happy in being informed, that the young man (son of the Rev T Cooper, of Leeds street, Liverpool) who was suspected of having been drowned whilst bathing at Liverpool, and for whose body a...
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Cupid at Athlone
Aquatic Excursion (from a correspondent) Athlone (2003) September 17, 1846 — The Amateur Band of St Peter’s, who deserve so much from the inhabitants of Athlone for the many opportunities they seize...
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Steam, Kilrush and trade
Appendix D Letter from Mr O’Brien, Agent to the Inland Steam Navigation Company Kilrush Steam Packet Office, December, 1837 Gentlemen — I beg to inclose the Return which you requested; I also send a...
View ArticleDutch sailing fleet
Covid-19 has damaged the financial basis for the survival of historic Dutch sailing vessels.
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That’s the Munster Blackwater. For some time I have had a page about it here, based on a boat trip from Youghal to (and a little beyond) Cappoquin and on road trips to the Bride and the Lismore Canal....
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There is a new video about Killaloe’s waterside heritage on the Heritage Week website here. The video was made in July 2020 by Joe O Dughghaill of Pine Valley Productions, Killaloe.
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