Eglinton Canal
Nineteenth-century limestone-walled canal linking a great lake to the sea, once feeding the city's mills.
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This guide to the Eglinton Canal in Galway starts with a doubtful visitor in eighteen fifty-three and a channel opened by the Lord Lieutenant the summer before. It follows the canal through the famine years, when digging it meant wages, and into a city of water-mills, maltings and whiskey stills. Stand by the black limestone walls and listen for the water.
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