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Speed
Lough Derg 8 July 2012 Click to view slideshow. Filed under: Extant waterways, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Shannon, Water sports activities, waterways, Weather Tagged: boats, catamaran,...
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RNLI on Lough Derg
8 July 2012 Lifeboat on the way Nearly there Coming alongside the casualty Helm Colin Knight Preparing to tow Under way Heading for Williamstown Almost there Filed under: Extant waterways, Ireland,...
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High heels
High … … … heels PS if you’re the man on the mast, and want copies of the pic above and others, leave a Comment below. Filed under: Extant waterways, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, People,...
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Birthday girl
Miranda at 100Filed under: Extant waterways, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Restoration and rebuilding, Shannon, waterways Tagged: boats, Dromineer, Ireland, Knight,...
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Commercial operations
An example I hadn’t come across before.Filed under: Economic activities, Extant waterways, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations, Scenery, Sources, Tourism, Water sports activities,...
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Looking for Hilda
In Irish Passenger Steamship Services Volume 2: South of Ireland (David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1971), D B McNeill writes: In the autumn of 1964 the Ormonde Hotel at Nenagh took delivery of the...
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What are they?
Dromineer February 2013. Unidentified birds (click for much larger image) Yes, I know they’re birds, but what class or type or breed or model?Filed under: Extant waterways, Ireland, Natural heritage,...
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Kilkenny Civil Defence
Kilkenny Civil Defence training session on the ShannonFiled under: Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations, Shannon,...
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Searching Lough Derg
Last Friday evening, 21 June 2013, was not a good time to be out on Lough Derg. We were heading north, with the waves behind us, and had little difficulty until entering port, but we could hear on the...
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Too much excitement …
… is bad for me, so I haven’t checked the list of licensed marked fuel traders [.xls] for some time. As a result, I may be late in noting the addition to the list of Shannon Sailing at Dromineer on...
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Nenagh Canal
Canal between Nenagh and the River Shannon At a numerous and highly respectable Meeting of the Gentry, Merchants, Traders, and Freeholders of the Baronies of Upper Ormond, Lower Ormond, and Owney and...
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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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River Suir
My spies tell me that the RTE television programme Nationwide, to be broadcast on Wednesday 13 May 2015 at 7.00pm, will include some material about the River Suir and perhaps some footage of a former...
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A bit of a barney
Photos of lower Lough Derg during Storm Barney on the afternoon of Tuesday 17 November 2015. From the R494 driving north from Ballina From the same position, looking around the other side of the house...
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Holiday tours in Ireland VII
On Lough Derg There are two Lough Dergs in Ireland. One is in the County of Donegal, within four and a half miles of Pettigoe, and is celebrated for its St Patrick’s Purgatory. The lake is but six...
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Hunting the Lough Derg monster
The hunter scans the deep The techie bit, probably to power the harpoon gun Thar she doesn’t blow Who are these chaps? What are they doing? Why are they doing it in a marina on Lough Derg? Are they...
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Limerick gammon
Thanks to AOD for alerting me to an article by Morgan McCloskey “O’Maras of Limerick and their overseas business” [PDF] from the Old Limerick Journal summer 2001. O’Maras were bacon and ham curers:...
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Lough Derg Regatta 1834 (a)
THIS REGATTA has been got up in a spirited manner by the Gentlemen of the Counties of Tipperary, Galway, and Clare, and will commence on TUESDAY, the 26th instant, between Drumineer and Williamstown,...
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Lough Derg Regatta 1834 (b)
Yesterday I posted a notice from the Limerick Chronicle of 20 August 1834, outlining the schedule of events for the regatta to be held on Lough Derg later that month. In a comment, Vincent Delany M.A....
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