{"id":19646,"date":"2022-10-29T21:15:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T21:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/?p=19646"},"modified":"2024-01-27T22:31:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T22:31:52","slug":"grand-royal-canals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/grand-royal-canals\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand &#038; Royal Canals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_63 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/grand-royal-canals\/#Grand_Canal\" title=\"Grand Canal\">Grand Canal<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/grand-royal-canals\/#Royal_Canal\" title=\"Royal Canal\">Royal Canal<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/grand-royal-canals\/#Passenger_Services\" title=\"Passenger Services\">Passenger Services<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/grand-royal-canals\/#Famine_Era_Works\" title=\"Famine Era Works\">Famine Era Works<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/grand-royal-canals\/#Railways\" title=\"Railways\">Railways<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Grand_Canal\"><\/span>Grand Canal<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The Grand Canal and Royal Canal are parallel waterways from Dublin to the Shannon. The Grand Canal was completed in 1811 and the Royal Canal in 1817.<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Canal Company was established in 1772 to ensure the future of the canal which by then had only been completed as to a relatively short stretch.\u00a0 A circular line to Dublin from Portobello to Ringsend was completed in the late 1790s with docks adjacent to the River Liffey.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the project to take the canal across the Bog of Allan \u00a0was recommenced.\u00a0 The continuation to this Island was finally completed in 1803.\u00a0The canal as now stands runs from Grand Canal Dock to River Shannon with a link to the River Barrow. The main line length is 131 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Grand Canal and Royal Canal, even at their peak carried not more than 100,000 tons of freight a year.\u00a0\u00a0The Grand Canal attracted a reasonable volume of goods in the 1840s, both passenger and freight.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Royal_Canal\"><\/span>Royal Canal<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The statutory authority for the Royal Canal was granted by the Irish Parliament in 1757.\u00a0 \u00a0Works on the canal commenced in 1790. The Royal Canal Company went bankrupt in 1812.<\/p>\n<p>A new company with government aid extended the Royal Canal to the Shannon.\u00a0 and it finally reached the river Shannon in 1817. The Royal Canal was built for freight and passenger transport from the River Liffey to Longford.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Canal was less successful than the Grand Canal.\u00a0 The Royal Canal had links to the Barrow River ,In 1845 the canal was sold to the Midland Great Western Railway.<\/p>\n<p>In the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century the Royal Canal docks were situated at Broadstone on the North Circular Road.\u00a0 The aqueduct and canal that linked the docks to the Royal Canal are gone and replaced by the Broadstone Railway and now bus garage.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Passenger_Services\"><\/span>Passenger Services<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Through the beginning of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century a transport service developed with canal boats moving across at a relatively leisurely pace.Barges were drawn by horse on the inland canal.<\/p>\n<p>Barges could make coastal voyages to Dublin in summer.\u00a0 At later times, cargoes were transhipped at Newry from barges or lighters operating on the canal.<\/p>\n<p>Hotels were built for passengers at a number of points on the Grand Canal including Portobello, Sallins, Robertstown, Tullamore and Shannon.\u00a0 The journey from Dublin to Shannon harbour took 18 hours in the early part of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Canal had four passenger boats in regular service from Dublin to Mullingar, 53 miles.\u00a0 This took thirteen and a half hours.\u00a0 Canal boats included facilities for serving meals and could cater for up to 60 to 70 passengers.<\/p>\n<p>From the early to middle of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, competition from mail and stage coaches offered a significantly faster service.\u00a0 They also complemented passenger canal services with links to the termini.<\/p>\n<p>In the pre-railway period, canal travel was more comfortable and less tiring than road travel.\u00a0 By 1850 the railways had arrived and canal passenger traffic was effectively dead.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Famine_Era_Works\"><\/span>Famine Era Works<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Extensive navigation works were undertaken on the canal during the famine.\u00a0 However, the era of railways had greatly reduced the attraction of waterways for passenger transport.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1840s a major scheme with navigation and drainage improvement along the Shannon was carried out under the commissioners for the improvement of the River Shannon.<\/p>\n<p>Extensive navigation works were undertaken on the Royal Canal during the famine.\u00a0 However, the era of railways had greatly reduced the attraction of waterways for passenger transport.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1850s, the Board of Public Works made the Upper and Lower Bann navigable between Portadown and Coleraine at the same time the further link was created from the Ulster Canal Southwest across County Leitrim to the headwaters of the Shannon through Ballinamore and Ballyconnell.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Railways\"><\/span>Railways<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>In the pre-railway period, canal travel was more comfortable and less tiring than road travel.\u00a0 By 1850 the railways had arrived and canal passenger traffic was effectively dead.<\/p>\n<p>The Mullingar Dublin railway line was constructed along the Royal Canal for much of its distance.\u00a0 The canal was purchased by the Midland Great Western Railway.\u00a0 The company had intended to close the canal and use the land as a bed.<\/p>\n<p>The canal fell into disrepair in the 1970s and came close to being closed up., the full length to the River Shannon was reopened in 2010 having fallen into disrepair since the middle of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-19646\" data-postid=\"19646\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-19646 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Canal The Grand Canal and Royal Canal are parallel waterways from Dublin to the Shannon. 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