{"id":848,"date":"2022-10-22T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=848"},"modified":"2022-10-23T14:13:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T13:13:38","slug":"the-ulster-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2022\/10\/22\/the-ulster-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ulster Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Regular readers of this site know that I am opposed to the “restoration” of the Ulster Canal on both heritage and economic grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am back to being a lone voice in the wilderness on this one, since the passing of Brian J Goggin of irishwaterwayshistory.com 2 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In memory of Brian, whose contribution to the recording of the history of Ireland’s canals and navigable waterways far exceeded anything I have achieved, I have created a map of the Ulster Canal<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are two larger scale maps linked off this – one covering from Charlemont to Lock 10 and the other from Lock 11 to Wattlebridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the moment, these latter two are flat pages. However, I intend to add links off these to photo galleries for each feature, showing the canal as it remains today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Regular readers of this site know that I am opposed to the “restoration” of the Ulster Canal on both heritage and economic grounds. I am back to being a lone voice in the wilderness on this one, since the passing of Brian J Goggin of irishwaterwayshistory.com 2 years ago. In memory of Brian, whose contribution […]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848"}],"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=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}