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   Welcome To The Coalisland Canal Website

 

inland waterways association of ireland

coalisland canal branch

Cumann uiscebhealaigh na Heireann

 

 Tel:028 87740467  Mob. 07801675078

 

 

Walk the Line!!!

On

New Years Day

 

Assemble at the the Cornmill at

2pm 

Friday 1st January 2010

(changed from Boxing Day due to bad weather)

Enjoy walking  three miles of level towpath to Moor Bridge and back to the Cornmill 

 

Refreshments (including Mulled Wine) in Cornmill afterwards.

 

Everyone Welcome

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

 

 

The Lough Neagh Website

Discover Lough Neagh

www.discoverloughneagh.com

 

 

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

 

 

 
 

 

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.

 

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

last updated 14/01/2010

             

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