{"id":1427,"date":"2024-07-20T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T21:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2024-07-20T22:05:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T21:05:08","slug":"meelick-weir-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/20\/meelick-weir-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Meelick Weir facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Connacht Tribune reports on the absence of public facilities at or near the Meelick Weir walkway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst complimentary about Waterways Ireland&#8217;s part in restoring the walkway along the weir, they note that WI have not provided any facilities for those caught short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was in Clones recently, looking at the new addition to the waterways of Ireland, I did notice the toilet block in Clones which was built as part of this. I am at a loss to understand why similar could not be provided at or near the Meelick Weir, especially as there does appear to be a control building at Meelick Lock:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!4v1721509380447!6m8!1m7!1sCri1HxaSIeuJgke3BWuxcQ!2m2!1d53.16834756115615!2d-8.080371414746105!3f288.9303099101902!4f-11.335497468515484!5f0.7820865974627469\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Connacht Tribune reports on the absence of public facilities at or near the Meelick Weir walkway. Whilst complimentary about Waterways Ireland&#8217;s part in restoring the walkway along the weir, they note that WI have not provided any facilities for those caught short. When I was in Clones recently, looking at the new addition to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427"}],"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=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}