53-534: Carrick-on-Shannon Courthouse is a former judicial facility and now an arts centre known as The Dock in Carrick-on-Shannon , County Leitrim , Ireland. The courthouse, which was designed by William Farrell in the neoclassical style and built in ashlar stone, was completed in 1822. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing onto St Georges Terrace; the central section of three bays, which slightly projected forward, featured
106-600: A century, until the closing of the Grand Canal Company in 1960, Carrick was a major depot for river trade; timber, cement, hardware, and especially Guinness stout were all transported here from Dublin, Athlone, and Limerick. St. Mary's Catholic Church , on the Main Street, is built in the Neo-Gothic style. It was designed by W.H. Hague, a Dublin architect. It was dedicated on 19 October 1879. The church
159-477: A doorway with a stone surround flanked by two round headed windows on the ground floor and a tripartite sash window on the first floor. The building was originally used as a facility for dispensing justice but, following the implementation of the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 , which established county councils in every county, it also became the meeting place for Leitrim County Council . After
212-526: A few people—that is, six horsemen and three score footmen—to meet Ua Ruairc. When Ua Ruairc and the Tellach-Eathach and Tellach-Dunchadha learned that Mag Uidhir was accompanied by only a small force, they gave him a hostile meeting. When Mag Uidhir saw the deceit practised on him, he went forward to Gort-an-fedain. There a battalion of kern and a battalion of gallowglasses of the people of Ua Ruairc overtook him. Then Mag Uidhir and Brian Mag Uidhir, with
265-512: A week long music and arts festival which began in 2005 is held every July. Carrick on Shannon experiences a year-round mild, moist, temperate and changeable climate, due to the prevailing winds of the Gulf Stream . The town experiences a lack of temperature extremes, with temperatures below 0 °C (32 °F) and above 30 °C (86 °F) being rare. The town receives an average of 1,147 mm (45.2") of precipitation annually, which
318-807: Is also in Carrick-on-Shannon. In soccer, Carrick Town FC was founded in 1976. The home ground is located at the Showgrounds on the Boyle Road. In rugby, Carrick-on-Shannon RFC was established in 1974. Golf was first played in Carrick-on-Shannon in 1910. The townland of Ballinamoney was first the first site for a golf course. In 1936 Carrick-on-Shannon Golf Club moved to a site nearer the town in Lisnagot. In 1944 it moved to its present location in Woodbrook. Carrick on Shannon Rowing Club
371-506: Is an arts centre housed in the renovated 19th century courthouse building. It was opened in 2005 and hosts a theatre, art galleries, artists' studios, workshop spaces, a coffee shop and bar as well as The Leitrim Design House . Since 2013, it has held the Phase One festival held at the beginning of April every year, dedicated to displaying artists and musicians associated with modern or electronic music. The Carrick Water Music Festival ,
424-416: Is evenly distributed throughout the year. Rain is the most common form of precipitation - hail , sleet and snow are rare in the town, though will sometimes be experienced during particularly cold winters. Carrick-on-Shannon is also consistently humid, with humidity normally ranging from 70% to 100%, and this can lead to heavy showers, and even thunderstorms breaking out when drier east winds, originating in
477-723: Is located on the River Shannon, which is linked to the River Erne via the Shannon–Erne Waterway . The town is located on the N4 National Primary Route , linking Dublin in the east to Sligo in the west. The road is of motorway status for much of its length. The town is served by the Dublin-Sligo railway line . Carrick-on-Shannon railway station opened on 3 December 1862. This line
530-633: Is on a plot of elevated ground. Fr. Thomas Fitzgerald, the priest responsible for its construction, is buried within the chancel in front of the Blessed Sacrament Altar. The town is in the parish of Kiltoghert in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise St. George's Church, St. Mary's Close, is the Church of Ireland parish Church. Prior to 1698, the parish church was situated at Kiltoghert. In that year it
583-612: Is the County Roscommon side of the town, is in the civil parish of Killukin, in the barony of Boyle . Carrick-on-Shannon is situated on a fording point of the Shannon. In the vicinity of Drumsna , on the County Roscommon border, are the remains of an Iron Age fortification. Corryolus townland on the Shannon ( Irish : Coraidh-Eoluis , meaning 'weir of Eolais') remembers Eolais Mac Biobhsach , ancestor of
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#1732798336914636-462: The Cavan and Leitrim Railway arrived in the area and were sufficiently confident that the canal would not be used that they built low bridges over it, preventing navigation. The railway was not a commercial success either, and was another drain on local resources. The Shuttleworth Commission recommended that the upper lock gates should be repaired in 1906, to prevent further damage to the structures of
689-584: The Costello Chapel . The present council buildings are the site of the Old Gaol, which was a prison that can date back as far as the 18th Century. Their was a smaller jailhouse which still stands today, built in the 1700s. This was replaced by a much larger Prison in the 1800s. The Gaol was mostly Demolished in the 1960s. Carrick is considered the gateway to the Shannon–Erne Waterway , Lough Key , Acres Lake and Lough Allen via
742-621: The Muintir Eolais who were the most famous ancient Leitrim sub-septs in the Barony of Mohill and the Barony of Leitrim . Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, a famous Battle of Áth an Chip occurred near Carrick-on-Shannon. On old maps, the town was also known as Carrick Drumrusk and Carrikdrumrusk , being an anglicised variant of the Irish name of the town. Carrick-on-Shannon
795-697: The Office of Public Works (the OPW, sometimes known as the Board of Works) was created, presided over by the Commissioners of Public Works, and one of the OPW's tasks was to find public schemes that would create employment. Accordingly, William Mulvany carried out the next survey at their request, at a time when work had begun on the Ulster Canal , which would provide the link onwards to Lough Neagh. The powers of
848-560: The Penal Laws . It is also reputed to have been the home of Turlough O'Carolan , the harpist and composer when he came to Carrick as a boy with his family from Nobber, County Meath in 1684. The Carrick Baptist Church was founded in September 2012. The church holds its services on Park Lane. The Costello Memorial Chapel , said to be the second smallest chapel in the world, has an area of 192 sq ft (18 m ). The Dock
901-852: The River Shannon in the Republic of Ireland with the River Erne in Northern Ireland . Managed by Waterways Ireland , the canal is 63 km (39 mi) in length, has sixteen locks and runs from Leitrim village in County Leitrim to Upper Lough Erne in County Fermanagh . The official opening of the Shannon–Erne Waterway took place at Corraquill Lock, just south of Teemore in the south of County Fermanagh , on 23 May 1994. The earliest known name of
954-595: The Board of Works. He estimated that the work would cost £100,000. When work began on the Ballinamore and Ballyconnell Canal in 1846, it was financed by the Office of Public Works , with John McMahon setting out the line and William Mulvany acting as the engineer in charge. This was one of four works of navigation part funded by the Treasury during the famine years in Ireland. The other three were Lough Neagh and
1007-443: The Commissioners of Public Works were increased in 1842 so that their remit included navigations, drainage and water power works. The Ulster Canal wanted the link to the Shannon completed, while local landowners wanted better drainage of the area, and these two factors finally convinced the commissioners that they should act. The scheme would combine navigation and drainage, and plans were drawn up by John McMahon, an engineer working for
1060-592: The Directors General asked Richard Evans, who had carried out the work in 1780, to estimate the cost of a link from the Shannon to the Erne, and also to reappraise the link from the Lower Erne at Belleek to the sea at Ballyshannon. Evans estimated that the two projects would cost £48,000, but the Directors General took no action, and this was the last time that the link to the sea was considered. In 1831,
1113-509: The European continent, clash with this humidity particularly in the late summer. The average January temperature in the town is 6.8 °C (40.6 °F) and the average July temperature is 16.0 °C (60.8 °F). This means that Carrick-on-Shannon is said to have a maritime temperate climate ( Cfb ) according to the Köppen climate classification system. As its name implies, the town
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#17327983369141166-740: The Inland Waterways Association of Ireland were asking for a full survey to be carried out. In 1973 at the Sunningdale Conference, during a discussion on functions of the Council of Ireland, Leslie Morrell inserted the Waterway into the list of possible cross-border works. Here things lay until 1988, when an engineering and feasibility study, funded by the International Fund for Ireland , examined
1219-652: The River Bann in County Antrim; Loughs Corrib, Mask and Carra in Counties Galway and Mayo; and Lough Oughter and Lough Gowna in County Cavan.The mix of drainage and navigation was always an awkward combination since the first required low water levels and the second required high water levels. The engineering would have been simpler if two separate schemes had been built, as would the finances, since
1272-582: The Roscommon side is the townland of Cortober . The Leitrim part of the town is situated in the townland of Townparks which is part of the extensive civil parish of Kiltoghert, while the Roscommon part is in the parish of Killukin. "Carrick Carnival" is an annual festival based in the town which takes place around the June Bank Holiday weekend. Lasting about 10 days, events include air shows, water sports, fireworks, and live music. During
1325-477: The Shannon Navigation was Drumsna. In the 1840s the improvement of the navigation entailed extensive dredging of the river, the cutting of Jamestown Canal, the construction of locks at Drumsna and Knockvicar , and the building of a new bridge and Quays at Carrick-on-Shannon. The new bridge, built in 1846, took the place of a nine arch stone bridge, which in turn replaced a wooden structure. For over
1378-565: The Shannon–Erne Waterway was the River Gráinne ( Sruth Gráinne in Irish , meaning The Gravelly River ). The earliest surviving mention of the river name is in a poem composed about 1291 which gives the name as Sruth Gráinne : The Gráinne River, that clear and fairest of streams, never ceases its moaning as it flows through the wood. Sruth Gráinne ar a ghuth ní ghabh Sruth glan áille tre fhiodh . The Annals of Loch Cé for
1431-655: The Woodford Demesne in County Leitrim , through which the river flowed. Taylor & Skinner Maps of the Roads of Ireland in 1777 depicts it as the Woodford River. After the river was canalised in the 1850s it was renamed as the Woodford Canal and sometimes as the Ballinamore and Ballyconnell Canal The grand plan of linking the river systems of the Erne and the Shannon with Lough Neagh was behind
1484-533: The boat crews, using a smart card to activate the control panel, although they can only be used when waterways staff are working. Once restored, the canal was renamed, becoming the Shannon–Erne Waterway, to reflect its purpose of linking the two river systems, and it was opened by Dick Spring , the Irish Foreign Minister and Sir Patrick Mayhew , the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland at
1537-537: The canal between 1860 and 1869, generating tolls of £18, and with this level of usage, there was little incentive to put things right. Two enquiries held at the time give an insight into the canal. The Crighton Committee of Enquiry was set up in 1878 to investigate the performance of the Board of Works , and following their findings, the Monck commission looked at the issues of a route from Belfast to Limerick . As part of
1590-418: The counties through which the canal ran, and the rest was funded by the government. Management was to be by a group of navigation trustees and a separate group of drainage trustees, which again provided conflict. The canal was handed over to them on 4 July 1860. Within months the engineer and secretary of the trustees, J. P. Pratt, had compiled a long list of problems. The records showed that only eight boats used
1643-469: The county council moved to County Hall in 1994, and the courts moved to modern facilities at Caddagh Glebe in 1997, the building fell vacant but was converted for use as arts centre known as The Dock in 2005. Carrick-on-Shannon Carrick-on-Shannon ( Irish : Cora Droma Rúisc , meaning ' weir of the marshy ridge' ) is the county town of County Leitrim in Ireland . It is the largest town in
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1696-513: The county. A smaller part of the town located on the west bank of the River Shannon lies in County Roscommon and is home to the town's main train station . As of the 2022 census , the population of the town was 4,743. It is situated on a strategic crossing point of the River Shannon . The main part of the town, the County Leitrim part, is in the civil parish of Kiltoghert, which is in the barony of Leitrim , while Cortober , which
1749-469: The drainage work had to be accounted for separately, and there were often delays while waiting for funding which was part of the other scheme. There were also problems with millers and eel fisheries, and surprisingly for a scheme designed to provide employment, difficulty with finding sufficient numbers of labourers to carry out the work. At the start of the project, over 7,000 were employed, but this reduced to 2,500 in its later stages. A navigation channel
1802-439: The evidence collected, Pratt related that he had ceased to maintain it after 1865 since there was no traffic, and John Grey Vesey Porter, one of the trustees, described a three-week journey along the canal in a steamer in 1868, which had only been achieved by Pratt moving the water from pound to pound to keep the boat afloat. He declared the whole project to be one of the most shameful pieces of mismanagement in any county . In 1887,
1855-543: The issues surrounding the reinstatement of the canal, which lay across the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland .The NI Water Council, then being chaired by Leslie Morrell, gave enthusiastic support and gained the approval of the Direct Rule Administration for the proposal. In June 1989, Charles Haughey , the Taoiseach , announced that the two governments had decided to adopt
1908-628: The latter half of the Carnival, larger events take place including Carnival Night, the Battle of the Musicals, Taste of Carrick, Vintage Car Displays and much more. St Mary's GAA club is based in the parish of Kiltoghert. The club, which was originally founded in 1889 and re-formed in 1944, has its grounds at Pairc Naoimh Mhuire. The Roscommon side of the town is served by Shannon Gaels GAA. The home ground of Leitrim GAA , Páirc Seán Mac Diarmada ,
1961-414: The loughs made it impossible to use horsepower for much of the distance, and boats with steam engines were already working on the Shannon. The first boats to use the canal from Ballinamore began to do so in 1858. By 1859 the cost had risen to £276,992, and there was a dispute as to who should pay the difference between that and the original estimate. Following a public enquiry, £30,000 was paid by each of
2014-474: The nobles of the people of Ua Ruairc to the town of Mag Uidhir and they were placed on the palisade of the court-yard of Mag Uidhir and so on. The 1609 Plantation of Ulster baronial map for the Barony of Loughtee, County Cavan , depicts the river as Graine Flumen ( Latin for 'Graine River'). After the Cromwellian settlement of Ireland in the 1650s, the river was renamed as the Woodford River, after
2067-554: The original waterway, which had never been properly completed in the first place. The work involved major reconstruction of many of the structures, to make them suitable for modern cruisers. The eight locks between Lough Scur and Lough Erne were new concrete structures, and were widened to 19.8 feet (6 m), but were faced with stone from the original locks. The eight locks down to the Shannon were in better condition and were repaired, so retain their original width of 16.5 feet (5 m). The locks are fully automatic, and are operated by
2120-436: The planning for several of the Irish canals, and the first attempt at a link between the Erne and the Shannon was made in 1780, along the Woodford River, from Belturbet to Ballyconnell . Richard Evans carried out the work, which was financed by a grant of £1,000 from parliament. He built a lock near Carrowl, but failed to obtain any more grants, and the project ceased. In 1790, there was a scheme to connect Lower Lough Erne to
2173-517: The proposal as a flagship cross-border project. In order for the project to take place, the powers of the original trustees, which had passed to the local authorities along its route, were transferred to the Office of Public Works. Work commenced in November 1990 and the canal was opened to traffic on 23 May 1994 on time and within the budget of £30m. It was essentially a new navigation along the line of
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2226-471: The sea at Ballyshannon , which would involve the construction of twelve locks, but only one was built, and the scheme foundered in 1792, due to a failure to raise enough capital. The next survey of the Woodford river was made in 1793 by William Chapman , who estimated that Garadice Lough could be reached for £5,000, from where he believed that a link to the Shannon should be possible. Eight years later,
2279-514: The six that were on horses and the three score kern, turned on them and routed the people of Ua Ruairc spiritedly, felicitously on that occasion and inflicted the defeat of Ath-Conaill and of the Graine -namely, a river that is between Fir-Manach and the Breifne-upon them. Mag Uidhir and his people then, returned with spoils joyfully. And the kern of Mag Uidhir carried with them sixteen heads of
2332-459: The time. One unfortunate result of the scheme has been the invasion of the Erne system by the zebra mussel , a non-native species which travelled along the waterway from the Shannon. The waterway has three natural sections: a still-water canal from the Shannon at Leitrim to Kilclare , which has eight locks; a summit level which includes Lough Scur, and a river navigation from Castlefore, near Keshcarrigan , through Ballinamore and Ballyconnell to
2385-525: The villages of Cootehall , Knockvicar , Jamestown , Leitrim Village , Drumshanbo and Keshcarrigan and is only a short distance away from the Glens of North Leitrim. Carrick-on-Shannon is served by the Leitrim Observer which is published every Wednesday and the fortnightly free Northwest Express newspapers. The Leitrim Post is now defunct. Until the early 19th century, the head of
2438-487: The waterway, but with no funds available, the navigation trustees concentrated on minor bridge repairs, to keep landowners and local authorities happy, and by 1948 they had ceased to function. Local authorities had to assume responsibility for bridge repairs, and there were ongoing problems with flooding. The canal lay moribund until the 1960s when the growth in pleasure boating on the Shannon led enthusiasts to consider whether it could be restored. By 1969, Leitrim Council and
2491-457: The year 1457 state: The victory of the Graine was gained by Mag Uidhir over Lochlainn, the son of Tadhg O'Ruairc, i.e. O'Ruairc. The Annals of Ulster for the year 1457 state: Great war arose this year between Mag Uidhir, namely, king of Fir-Manach and Ua Ruairc, namely, Lochlann, son of Tadhg Ua Ruairc. Mag Uidhir and Ua Ruairc appointed a meeting with each other opposite Ath-Conaill Mag Uidhir and Brian, son of Philip Mag Uidhir, went with
2544-413: Was an investigation into the Board of Works since they seemed unable to deliver any projects within budget. Mulvany became the scapegoat , and was blamed for the overrun. He made cutbacks, reducing the depth from 6 feet (1.8 m) to 4.5 feet (1.4 m), although in places the navigation was shallower than this. Despite the stringency, towpaths were built on the canal sections at huge cost, even though
2597-502: Was dredged through the six loughs which formed part of the canal using steam dredgers. The locks down to Lough Erne were all constructed with large weirs, and there were considerable problems with flooding from the Woodford River during construction. Between Lough Scur and Leitrim, the Leitrim River was enlarged, and eight locks were built. It soon became obvious that the original estimates were totally inadequate, and in 1852 there
2650-507: Was founded in 1836 and is the oldest rowing club in Ireland as well as one of the oldest in Europe. The locality has hosted national and international angling competitions. Carrick-on-Shannon is twinned with Cesson-Sévigné in Brittany , France. Shannon%E2%80%93Erne Waterway The Shannon–Erne Waterway ( Irish : Uiscebhealach na Sionainne is na hÉirne ) is a canal linking
2703-514: Was granted a royal charter and named a borough with its own seal in 1607. Throughout at least the 19th and 20th centuries, three annual fairs were held at Carrick on- 12 May, 11 August, and 21 November (or 22nd). Historic buildings are the "Carrick Castle", the Workhouse and Famine Graveyard, Hatley Manor (a restored Georgian period home of the St. George Family), St George's Church of Ireland and
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#17327983369142756-490: Was originally part of the Midland Great Western Railway . The railway station is approximately 2 kilometres outside town on the Roscommon side of the Shannon. Bus Éireann bus services connect the town to Dublin and Sligo. There is a regular Locallink Bus Service to Ballinamore via Mohill. Carrick-on-Shannon, while the county town of Leitrim, straddles the river Shannon. That part of the town on
2809-576: Was transferred to its present site in Carrick. It was re-built in 1829 and the interior reconstructed in the years 1910–1914. Rev. W.A. Percy who was Rector from 1869 to 1886 was the grandfather of the famous songwriter Percy French . The Priest's Lane is a long-standing name for the road leading from Main Street to St. Patrick's Park. This was where the Catholic clergy first lived after the relaxation of
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