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towns of Carrick-on-Suir, Clonmel, Ennisteague, and Thomastown, are also 

 accessible to it, from one extremity, while the port of Dublin is open to its 

 craft at the other ; time alone having been necessary for the development of 

 highly remunerative traffic, on a line so favourably circumstanced if cheaply 

 and judiciously constructed. Boats cannot load more than two-thirds of 

 their tonnage in summer. " 



This waterway now belongs to the Grand Canal Company, having been 

 acquired by purchase in the year 1892. 



This navigation is carried from Warrenpoint to Newry by the ship canal 



which admits vessels drawing 1 5 feet of water ; 



The Newry thence northward by canal to Portadown ; 16 }4 miles 



Navigation. above it joins the Lower Bann, in the bed of which 



river it is continued to Lough Neagh. The summit 



level is 76 feet, and 28 above Lough Neagh. The Newry Navigation was 



purchased in 1901, by the Newry Harbour and Navigation Trust. In 1881, 



the shares of the Newry Navigation Company were worth £SS ; in 1900 



they had fallen as low as ;;^20, and at something like the last figure they 



were purchased. 



This is a short navigation, extending from Coal Island to the river Black- 

 water, near Lough Neagh. The works were executed 

 The Tyrone under 40 Geo. III., c. 51, in the early part of the cen- 



Navigation. tury, out of pubHc funds, to the amount of ;^25,8i3, 



by the Directors-General of Inland Navigation, and 

 when the powers of those Directors were transferred to the Board of Works, 

 under i and 2 W. IV., c. 33, in 183 1, this navigation passed into the hands of 

 the Board of Works, in whom it has since been vested. 



This navigation extends from Navan to Drogheda, in all nineteen statute 

 miles. A sum of i^75,ocxD was expended on the 

 The Boyne works prior to 1789, and a further outlay of ;^85,ooo 



Navigation. subsequently, by the Directors-General of Inland 



Navigation. Over ;^30,000 was subscribed for pri- 

 vately, which brought the total cost of the navigation up to about ;£" 190,000. 

 It passed into the hands of the Board of Works, in consequence of the 

 transfer to them in 1 831 of the powers of the Directors-General. 



This was one of the navigations undertaken by the Board of Works, 

 under 5 and 6 Vic, c. 89, in connection with arterial 

 Lough Corrib drainage works, between 1848 and 1889. The cost of 

 Navigation. the works was intended to be divided between the 



Government and the district ; but, in consequence of 

 an integral part of the scheme, which was to connect Lough Corrib with 

 Lough Mask, being found impracticable owing to the subterraneous lime- 

 stone caverns, the whole of the expense (;^ 102,289), with the exception of 

 ^^14,883 repaid by the counties, fell on public funds. The works were 

 handed over to trustees, pursuant to 19 and 20 Vic, c 62. In 1874 powers 

 were given to the trustees, by the Act 37 and 38 Vic, c 71, to dispose of the 

 property with the consent of the Grand Jury. 



