Month: November 2025

I thought that I had my final trip taking photos/site visits for 2025, but the mild weather today led me north again on a mopping up exercise in Co. Down.

I managed to visit half a dozen sites today that I had previously missed for various reasons and these photos will be added to the site over the next few weeks.

I am acutely aware that the primary focus of this site has been the railway built infrastructure of the island of Ireland, due to the fact that my underlying interest in industrial heritage lies in that area.

Now that I am coming close to completion of the development of the railway aspect of the online gazetteer, it is time to start looking at the canals of Ireland.

I already have extensive coverage of the Ulster Canal and the Lagan Navigation and the next canal I intend to add detail to on the gazetteer is the Royal Canal, primarily because it is the one closest to where I live and therefore the easiest to complete.

As the towpath outside of Dublin can be hit and miss, Winter is not the time to be cycling this and the plan is to work on the back end (map, location links etc) over the next 3 months with a view to adding in photographs in 2026.

However, I have, over the last couple of weekends, cycled from Kilcock to Castleknock along the towpath and photographed the bridges/locks etc. One final bike trip from Castleknock to Dublin city should finish this section.

The plan would then be to do two day trips by train with bike to cover Longford to Mullingar and Mullingar to Kilcock.