Survey Data
Reg No
50100536
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Lock
In Use As
Lock
Date
1785 - 1795
Coordinates
317345, 233434
Date Recorded
12/08/2016
Date Updated
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Description
Single canal lock on Grand Canal, constructed c. 1790, to west side of McKenny Bridge. Dressed limestone chamber walls with dressed coping, having rebates for lock gates at north end. Mooring posts to each side of chamber. Replacement timber and mild steel lock gates, timber balance beams. Mooring area to west side of lock.
Appraisal
A well-built canal lock. The lock chamber exhibits good-quality stone masonry and, to the south, the canal expands in width to provide a mooring place for boats waiting to use the lock. It forms part of a small of group of related structures, that includes the nearby bridge. Construction of the canal began in the second half of the eighteenth century to provide freight and passenger transport between the Liffey and Shannon rivers.