Brian J Goggin wrote: > The Munster Blackwater is an isolated tidal river navigation that > joins the sea at Youghal, the easternmost part of County Cork on > Ireland's south coast. The navigation was used by pleasure steamers > and motor launches, ferrymen and fishermen and, most significantly, > by schooners carrying coal to Ireland and pit-props back to Wales: > those schooners included the Kathleen & May (owned at Youghal for > some time) and the De Wadden (now in Liverpool). > > I have put up a gallery of photos of the navigation, from Youghal to > the Kitchenhole above Cappoquin, with a few photos of the Lismore > Canal and Bride Navigation. > > You can go direct to http://www.pbase.com/bjg/blackwater or go to > http://www.pbase.com/bjg/root and select the gallery called "The > Munster Blackwater and associated navigations". You can look at pics > one by one or use the slideshow. > > By the way, pbase has an RSS feed so you can (if you're interested) > ask to be notified automatically of updates to my photos. > > bjg
So is Kitchenhole, where the Kitchens come from? :-) Thanks for that, it looks somewhat like the Tidal Barrow / Nore, but with more habitation. -- Neil Arlidge - NB Earnest
