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17th September 2019

Hopes For Reopening Of Lough Key Forest Park Canal

Drummans canal is close to the Waterways Ireland marina at Drummans Island pictured here

The start of cutting season next month could see the reopening of a disused canal in Co Roscommon for paddle sports, as The Irish Times reports.

Drummans canal was built in 1719 as one of a number of private canals on the former Rockingham Estate and is now part of present-day Lough Key Forest Park, but the 150m-long waterway has been overgrown for a number of years.

Waterways Ireland says that, subject to necessary environmental screening, it hopes to cut back vegetation in order to reopen the canal to canoes, kayaks and stand-up paddle boards.

The Irish Times has much more in the story HERE.

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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago