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- Boyne NavigationBoyne NavigationThe Boyne Navigation is a series of canals running 31 km roughly parallel to the River Boyne from Oldbridge to Navan in County Meath, in Ireland. The navigation was once used by horse drawn boats travelling between Navan, Slane and the port of Drogheda; however is now derelict...
- Broharris CanalBroharris CanalThe Broharris Canal is a canal situated in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It was constructed in the 1820s when a cut, some 3.2 km long on the south shore of Lough Foyle near Ballykelly was made in the direction of Limavady...
- Coalisland CanalCoalisland CanalCoalisland Canal is a canal in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland and is about long. Construction of the canal began in 1733, but progress was slow and it was not officially opened until 1787. The canal was built to reduce the cost of transporting coal from the Tyrone coalfields to Dublin...
(Tyrone Navigation) - Dukart's CanalDukart's CanalDukart's Canal was built to provide transport for coal from the Drumglass Colleries to the Coalisland Canal, in Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It opened in 1777, and used three inclined planes, rather than locks, to cope with changes in level...
- Grand CanalGrand Canal of IrelandThe Grand Canal is the southernmost of a pair of canals that connect Dublin, in the east of Ireland, with the River Shannon in the west,via Tullamore and a number of other villages and towns, the two canals nearly encircling Dublin's inner city. Its sister canal on the Northside of Dublin is the...
- Lacy's CanalLacy's CanalLacy's Canal was named after Hugh de Lacy. It was constructed in the 18th century and links the town of Mullingar to northern shore of Lough Ennell. It starts at the rear of the Lynn Industrial Estate and enters Lough Ennel about a mile south of Butlers Bridge. It is crossed by both Butlers Bridge...
- Lagan CanalRiver LaganThe River Lagan is a major river in Northern Ireland which runs 40 miles from the Slieve Croob mountain in County Down to Belfast where it enters Belfast Lough, an inlet of the Irish Sea. The River Lagan forms much of the border between County Antrim and County Down. It rises as a tiny fast...
- Lecarrow Canal
- Newry CanalNewry CanalThe Newry Canal, located in Northern Ireland, was built to link the Tyrone coalfields to the Irish Sea at Carlingford Lough near Newry.-History:...
- Royal CanalRoyal Canal of IrelandThe Royal Canal is a canal originally built for freight and passenger transportation from the River Liffey at Dublin to the River Shannon at Cloondara in County Longford in Ireland. It fell into disrepair, but since has been restored for navigation...
- Shannon-Erne WaterwayShannon-Erne WaterwayThe Shannon-Erne Waterway is a canal linking the River Shannon in the Republic of Ireland with the River Erne in Northern Ireland. Managed by Waterways Ireland, the canal is in length, has sixteen locks and runs from Leitrim village in County Leitrim to Upper Lough Erne in County Fermanagh...
- Strabane CanalStrabane CanalStrabane Canal is a canal in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. In 1791 an Act was passed authorising the construction of a 6.4 km canal from the tidal waters of Lough Foyle at Leck, some 16 km upstream from Derry, to Strabane. It only had two locks, called 'Crampsies' and 'Devines'...
- Ulster CanalUlster CanalThe Ulster Canal is a disused canal running through part of County Armagh, County Tyrone and County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland and County Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland...