Survey Data
Reg No
11806015
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Canal (section of)
In Use As
Canal (section of)
Date
1780 - 1790
Coordinates
278833, 225227
Date Recorded
23/04/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Section of Grand Canal, c.1785, with dressed stone retaining walls.
Appraisal
The focal point of the village of Robertstown (and for many years the reason for the economic survival of the locality) this section of the Grand Canal is of considerable historical, social and technical significance, having been built as a means of providing an alternative route linking the east of Ireland to the west, and vice versa. The presence of the Grand Canal encouraged the building of structures of technical/engineering merit, such as Binns Bridge (11806004/KD-13-06-04), and also encouraged the industrialisation or commercial development of urban centres, such as Robertstown, for example the establishment of a canal hotel (11806009/KD-13-06-09). The cut-stone retaining walls to the canal reveal a high quality of stone masonry practised in the locality.