{"id":1418,"date":"2024-07-13T21:11:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T20:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2024-07-13T21:11:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T20:11:39","slug":"the-ulster-canal-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/13\/the-ulster-canal-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ulster Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was up in South Ulster yesterday and the day before, doing a quick photographic update of the bridges\/locks of the Ulster Canal. I didn&#8217;t manage to complete this as getting beyond Caledon on 12th July wasn&#8217;t possible, due to a 12th day demonstration in Killylea. A shout out to the PSNI officers manning the road block at Caledon who were bemused by this Dubliner telling them he didn&#8217;t know where he was going but was following instructions from Google!*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I plan to add the photos of the Ulster Canal to the site shortly. In advance of having this update to the site ready, below is a photo I took near to the end of the canal at Wattlebridge, of a boat on a trailer adjacent to the canalbed. I genuinely hope that this is the closest to the Ulster Canal this boat gets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DC02720-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"Boat beside dry Ulster Canal at Wattlebridge, Co. Fermanagh\" class=\"wp-image-1419\" srcset=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DC02720-1024x731.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DC02720-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DC02720-768x549.jpg 768w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DC02720.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>* The process I use in cases like this is I identify all sites I need to visit on a given day and download the latitude\/longitude co-ordinates of these, in the right order, into a spreadsheet and copy\/paste the co-ordinates in sequence into Googlemaps on my phone, to navigate from one to the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was up in South Ulster yesterday and the day before, doing a quick photographic update of the bridges\/locks of the Ulster Canal. I didn&#8217;t manage to complete this as getting beyond Caledon on 12th July wasn&#8217;t possible, due to a 12th day demonstration in Killylea. A shout out to the PSNI officers manning the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}