The old Limerick to Killaloe Canal

Real life account of visit to river transport on a barge in Limerick city worth a read Click on link:

Old Limerick Canal in 1930's

(Accessed on 24th November http://www.limerickcity.ie/media/writers,%20history%2040.pdf)

Please press on link and scroll down to bottom where the writer begins with the Limerick to Killaloe canal project was started in 1957.  The account is from a boy visiting a bargeman in 1930 and a great read for a real account of what life on the canals was like.