Abandoned & Vanished Canals of Ireland, Scotland and Wales

Andy Wood

• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• eBook ISBN:
  9781445648699
• Subtopic: Marine Transportation
• Index: Technology & Engineering

A resurgence in canal restoration has seen many British canals reopen in the past three decades, but many are still abandoned, some even vanished under roads, railways and buildings. Many thousands of route miles of canal and navigation once used to criss-cross the British Isles, serving collieries, iron mines, steelworks, towns and villages. From the start of the twentieth century onwards, many of these canals closed down as a result of lack of trade. Many of the lost canals are in the industrial belts of Scotland and Wales, with a smattering of Irish routes, from the Rockville Navigation via the Monkland Canal, now under the M74 motorway, and the Aberdare Canal. Andy Wood gives us a brief history of each of the lost canals, from the Athlone Canal to the Trewydda Canal.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Introduction
• Ireland
• Ballinasloe Canal
• Bridgetown Canal
• Broadstone Branch (Royal Canal)
• Broharris Canal
• Coalisland Navigation (Tyrone Canal) and Ducart’s Canal
• Cong Canal
• Eglinton Canal
• Finnery River Navigation
• Grand Canal Docks (Abandoned Line)
• John’s Canal, Castleconnell
• Lismore Canal
• Lynch’s Canal
• Mountmellick Line (Grand Canal)
• Newry Canal
• Park Canal
• Plassey–Errina and Killaloe Canals
• Rockville Navigation
• Rockingham Canal
• Roscrea Canals
• Ulster Canal
• Scotland
• Black Wood of Rannoch Canals
• Borrowstounness (Bo’ness) Canal
• Campbeltown & Machrihanish Coal Canal
• Carlingwark Canals
• Carron Canals
• Fleet Canal
• Forth & Cart Junction Canal
• Glasgow, Paisley & Ardrossan Canal
• Inverarnan Canal
• Kilbagie Canal
• Monkland Canal
• Muirkirk Canal
• Pudzeoch Canal
• Sir Andrew Wood’s Canal
• St Fergus & River Ugie (Pitfour’s) Canal
• Stevenston (Saltcoats) Coal Canal
• Wales
• Bowser’s Level
• Burry and Loughor Canals
• Cemlyn Canal
• Clyndu Canal
• Crymlyn Canal
• Cyfarthfa Canal
• Doctor’s Canal
• Earl of Ashburnham’s Canal
• General Warde’s (Dafen and Yspitty) Canals
• Giant’s Grave and Britton Ferry (Jersey) Canal
• Glamorganshire Canal
• Glan-y-wern and Red Jacket Canals
• Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen Canals
• Kidwelly & Llanelly and Kymer’s Canal
• Kilgetty Canal
• Llansamlet (Smith’s) Canal
• Llechryd Canal
• Mackworth’s Canal
• Penclawdd Canal
• Penrhiwtyn Canal
• Pen-y-fan (Wern) Canal
• Rhyddings (Redding) Canal
• Rhyd-y-defaid Mining Canal
• Swansea Canal
• Tremadoc Canal
• Trewyddfa (Morris’s) Canal
• Maps
• Bibliography