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sea at Gal way to Maam in Joyce's country, and by 

 Cong to Ballinrobe, and within a few miles of Castlebar 

 in Mayo. 



" Combined with these objects of navigation and 

 drainage is a very important measure of improved 

 manufacturing power at Galway, applied for under 

 the provisions of the Drainage Acts, by the parties 

 possessing the water-power at present existing, the 

 project involving the remodelling and increasing nearly 

 all the mill sites in Galway, and the formation of 

 new sites ; to nearly all of which it is proposed to 

 make available the full fall between Lough Corrib 

 and the level of the sea, by means of main con- 

 duits, on each side of the river Corrib, whereby each 

 mill-owner may draw his supply of water-power directly 

 from Lough Corrib, which contains an area of 43,480 

 acres of water. 



" In connexion with this latter object it may be ob- 

 served, that water-power can, under these arrangements, 

 be made available — if the necessary funds be provided 

 by the town — for supplying the highest parts of Galway 

 with water for all sanitary purposes. 



" Looking to the natural position of the place as the 

 terminus for the important line of railway from Dublin 

 to the west, and as the natural market centre for the 

 vast extent of country around it on every side, but 

 especially to the north-west, it appears difficult to set a 

 limit to the advantages of opening the great natural 

 navigation of the lakes in question, with the important 

 manufacturing power thus contemplated to be conferred 

 on Galway, taken in combination with the extensive 



