An Irish Canalboat Adventure: Cruising the River Barrow on a Narrow Boat in Spring.

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In we met Simon Mc Donald on the Barrow who had worked on her for just under a year, he explained that Bobsie Mann had crewed her and eventually became the skipper. His brother Willie Pender also crewed her for a time. Larry Daly had also crewed her. In the salary for a deckhand was three pounds five shillings and seven pence.

In it had increased to eight pounds and ten shillings. But in , the year she was built a crewman earned thirty shillings and three pence. Little wonder the greasers went on strike.

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He recollected one voyage to Lanesborough with a cargo of cement used to build the Bord na Mona Bridge and on the return passage making the all Ireland football final at Croke Park. As earlier mentioned Eamon Pender from Ticknevin was skipper, Jim Roche from Allenwood was greaser and another deckhand who had crewed her during those years was Jim Balph from Allenwood.

CIE officially closed down for commercial trading in December However, they had to complete the building of storage sheds in Limerick for holding Guinness. These Boats worked until July when the canal was finally closed to commercial traffic. She was also used to recover equipment from the disused company depots along the Shannon and Grand Canal.

Tom who was her last professional skipper now lives in Killaloe.

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E in late Some time between then and she was bought by Myles Digby, who had a plan to convert a number of barges into hired boats. These were to be self-contained barges suitable for anglers on a fishing holiday.

However, this idea never materialised and she sank in Shannon harbour. She was then sold to Jim Foley for 12 pounds and six shillings. He used these along the bulkheads and deckheads, some of which are still remaining. Some of the deckhead and a skylight in the Saloon was taken from the Wayfarer. The 61M now converted was towed down to Killaloe by the Lady Beverley to a berth outside the Lakeside Hotel where she remained as a home to the Foley family and their pet fox for seven years.

Mike Roberts from Clondragh then bought her in for pounds. He started to do some more work on her. This work included a new engine and a wheelhouse. He placed concrete bricks in to her for ballast that we later removed and replaced with mild steel railway lines. In an Aer Lingus pilot, Dermot Mowatt, bought her. However, one day going downstream the engine failed upstream of Tarmonbarry Bridge and with no way of stopping, she was made topless. The Wheelhouse has not been replaced since and so she looks more traditional in profile than many of the modern conversions.

She has remained with her tiller throughout her life and driving the barge whilst at times can be a little tiring is very rewarding as you are very much exposed to the elements and so fully appreciate the lives of the many people who stood there before you. He fitted her current engine a Perkins and Newage gearbox with the help of Charlie Bishop from the insurance money claimed from that unfortunate wheelhouse accident. Dermot used her for most of the eighties and then sold her to P.

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Norris on the 26th of February PJ rarely used her and she had spent quite a few years lying in Shannon Harbour. Adair and myself then bought her in December We had been raised beside the Shannon and so we wanted to spend some of our holiday time on it.

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We decided to name the 61M after an ungainly fly, a Murrough. This is the largest of the sedges that can be seen on the Shannon and her lakes throughout the summer months.

The Murrough is a large awkward fly, which is unpredictable in flight coloured either dark brown or even as light as sand and we feel it depicts the behaviour of the 61M in her ship handling characteristics! One of our many crewmembers once announced to some new and naive crewmembers "Welcome onboard the 61M where you will visit the outer reaches of Galactic Barging". City Trails - London. An Expert Guide To Cruising. Paved Walks Around Cheshire. Sailing Round Ireland The East Lancashire Railway. Do It Yourself Vacations. A Fine Place to Daydream. Around Maghull and Lydiate Through Time.

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