Welcome To The Coalisland Canal Website

inland waterways association of ireland

coalisland canal branch

Cumann uiscebhealaigh na Heireann

NINTH ANNUAL

CANAL WALK

Wednesday 2^nd July 2008

Transport available from Cornmill car park at 7pm. Walk leaves The High Bridge Reenaderry Rd. at 7.30.pm.

If you are unable to travel the full four and a half mile walk, why not join in at Moor Bridge or Mack’s Bridge and complete the last mile and a half on the re-surfaced towpath between there and the Town. It is user friendly for wheelchairs and buggies so everyone can join in this popular walk.

Refreshments in Cornmill afterwards.

Your support over the years has been very effective, please keep it up.

Enquiries:

Jim Canning 87740467 – John Cavanagh 87748931 – James Walshe 87748880

(Chairman) (Secretary) (Vice Chairman)

The Lough Neagh Website

Discover Lough Neagh

www.discoverloughneagh.com

Details all 2007 walks

click here

The Coalisland Branch I.W.A.I. have announced the completion of their major publication dealing with the local inland waterway. click on book for details

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DUKART’S CANAL

Saturday 6^th August

details click here

FIFTH ANNUAL

CANAL WALK

Wednesday 29^th June 2005

BIGGER THAN EVER

click here for report

TUESDAY 28th DECEMBER 2004

CHRISTMAS CANAL WALK

full report and photos click here

click here to email Jim Canning

On Thursday 22 May 2003 The Friends of The Coalisland Canal formed a Branch of The Inland Waterways Association of Ireland

details on news page

The Coalisland navigation is one of the shorter waterways being about four and a half miles long. In conjunction with Ducarts Canal it linked the River Blackwater and Lough Neagh to the Tyrone Coalfields at Coalisland. Although short, it rises about 250 feet or 76 metres through seven locks and a series of dry hurries/wherries with quite an extensive basin at Coalisland. The distance of two and a half miles to the coalfields at Drumglass from Coalisland was fraught with difficulty. Tub boats were floated onto cradles and pulled by horses up the slope. Unfortunately this ambitious scheme was never really that successful. Sadly the Tyrone coal deposits proved to be of inferior quality and all too often coal was carried in the opposite direction. Despite the difficulties experienced the canal from Lough Neagh via the River Blackwater to Coalisland was a very successful enterprise with many thousands of tons of goods being carried by barge in both directions.

This is the Vision For Coalisland

IWAI has made an application under the InterregIII programme for funding to begin restoration work on the Ulster Canal. A document explaining the proposals can be found HERE.

The reopening of the Ulster Canal would be a great help to the reopening of the Coalisland Canal.

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Saturday 6th August

this site is owned and maintained by the Coalisland Canal Branch IWAI

last updated 03/07/2008

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