Nick wrote: > It's interesting to find as I collect canal data that the precise naming > of every junction seems to be an idiosyncrasy of the UK canal network > and elsewhere (even in the UK) junction's don't have the same specific > names they do in - say - Birmingham.
Seeing as how there are fewer canal junctions in the whole of Ireland than there are in Birmingham, I suspect that there was never the same need to identify each junction by name! I take it that you are aware of IWAI's online waterway maps? http://www.iwai.ie/framed.map.html The other difference from England is that the locks on the main canals do not have names as such but are known by numbers, for example: Twelfth Lock, etc. The locks on the Shannon-Erne have geographical names, though. -- Martin Clark Pennine Waterways Website http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk
