The Newry Canal is an abandoned canal in Northern Ireland. Opened in 1742, it was built to link the Tyrone coalfields to the Irish Sea. The navigable...

the site. Newry grew as a market town and a garrison, and became a port in 1742 when the Newry Canal was opened, the first summit-level canal in Ireland...

constituency Newry and Armagh (Assembly constituency) Newry and Armagh (UK Parliament constituency) Other uses Newry (civil parish) Newry Canal Newry Bosco GFC...

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it is joined by the Cusher River and connects with the now disused Newry Canal, which once gave access south to the Irish Sea. Although the Upper Bann...

previously worked with Thomas Steers, Liverpool’s first dock engineer, on the Newry Canal in Northern Ireland, was Liverpool’s second dock engineer, but was appointed...

Obins. In 1741, Anthony Obins was involved with the development of the Newry Canal. He was succeeded by Michael Obins in 1750. It was he who set up a linen...

anticipated. The first canal to be constructed with a summit pound in the United Kingdom was the Newry Canal, completed in 1741, which linked Newry to Lough Neagh...

The Belfast–Newry line (known as the Portadown line by NI Railways) operates from Belfast Grand Central in County Antrim to Newry in County Down, Northern...

and "Bridgewater" supporters. The first true canal in what is now the United Kingdom was the Newry Canal in Northern Ireland constructed by Thomas Steers...

English name was Nury (Newry) Bay. The Newry River and the Newry Canal link the lough to the nearby city of Newry (the canal continues on towards the...

port of Newry was already a transport hub by 1742 with the opening of the Newry Canal to Lough Neagh. By the start of the twentieth century Newry had become...

several times daily. County Armagh is traversed by the Ulster Canal and the Newry Canal which are not fully open to navigation. In association football...

years. On 11 June 2005, O'Connor's body was discovered in his car in Newry Canal, County Down. His father, Mark, believes that the Provisional IRA were...

along a canal that was made at the same time, although was replaced by a railway in the 1850s.[citation needed] The canal, known as the Newry Canal, closed...

Bridge, near Gifford, to Fathom Point, near Newry. The canal broadly followed the line of the later Newry Canal, and although a parliamentary committee liked...

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to be Ireland's first ever Protestant church. The Newry Canal is also the first summit-level canal ever to be built in the British Isles. Castlewellan...

accommodate the lower level of the river, as did the final lock on the Newry Canal where it joined the Upper Bann. The total cost of the project, split...

Ireland. It is at the boundary with County Armagh, which is marked by the Newry Canal. In the 2001 census it had a population of 320. Scarva is home to the...

The following list of canals in the United Kingdom, includes some systems that are navigable rivers with sections of canal (e.g. Aire and Calder Navigation)...

River Bann one mile above Portadown. The Cusher River is part of the Newry Canal. Both of these waters and the Bann connect at Whitecoat. During the 19th...

provided a link from the city of Belfast, the Newry Canal linked to the port of Newry, and the Ulster Canal led to the Lough Erne navigations, providing a...

The Newry, Warrenpoint and Rostrevor Railway (NW&RR) was a former railway line linking Newry and the port of Warrenpoint on the Carlingford Lough inlet...

significant navigation achievement was the Newry Canal, in Ireland, which was the first summit-level canal in the British Isles. The promoters asked him...

membership. His body was discovered on 28 June 2005 in his car, in the Newry Canal. 12 May 2003 Holly Jones Michael Briere Toronto, Ontario, Canada 10 Murdered...

28 November 2016 at the Wayback Machine, lockkeeper's cottage for the Newry Canal Milford House Museum Milford Armagh Biographical website, history of...

along the border in bomb attacks. In May 1957, the group blew up the Newry Canal lock with gelignite that they had stolen. Their military campaign saw...

coal deposits in east Tyrone, which resulted in the construction of the Newry Canal, there was renewed interest, and in 1741 Arthur Dobbs, the Surveyor General...

cutting of a canal to enable the resource to be transported more easily. The canal would have followed a similar route to the later Newry Canal, but nothing...