{"id":75,"date":"2013-05-02T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canalways.ie\/blog\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2014-03-09T10:27:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T10:27:09","slug":"the-river-barrow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/canalways.ie\/blog\/our-base\/the-river-barrow\/","title":{"rendered":"The River Barrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The River Barrow Navigation&#8230; Ireland&#8217;s oldest navigation and best kept secret<\/h2>\n<div align=\"left\">This waterway links the city of Waterford to Dublin\u00a0the Capital. Work on the Barrow\u00a0 Navigation started\u00a0in 1761 at St. Mullins, below which the river is tidal.<br \/>\nIt involved the construction of a series of canal cuts, to by-pass the shallows, and weirs to control the natural fall of the water and\u00a0 provide sufficient depth for boats.<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p>A towpath was cleared for horses towing the boats.\u00a0In 1791 the Barrow Line was completed connecting\u00a0Athy to Robertstown on the Grand Canal Main\u00a0Line, thus providing a major navigation system\u00a0through the heart of Ireland.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right alignright\" alt=\"4a6q1567-low-res\" src=\"http:\/\/canalways.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/gallery-photos\/4a6q1567-low-res.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Barrow River Navigation offers you 70 miles (120km) of river and canal cruising with 32 locks. You will need to read your charts carefully as there are very few markers &#8230;.It is quite exciting for the boat enthusiast and a real boating adventure.<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The River Barrow Navigation&#8230; Ireland&#8217;s oldest navigation and best kept secret This waterway links the city of Waterford to Dublin\u00a0the Capital. Work on the Barrow\u00a0 Navigation started\u00a0in 1761 at St. Mullins, below which the river is tidal. It involved the construction of a series of canal cuts, to by-pass the shallows, and weirs to control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-75","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canalways.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canalways.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canalways.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canalways.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canalways.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canalways.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canalways.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canalways.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}