Re: Re: Limerick Docklands ~ Ted Russell Docks

@bjg wrote:

– from David Fleming “Limerick’s eighteenth-century economy” in Liam Irwin, Gearoid O Tuathaigh and Matthew Porter eds *Limerick: History and Society* Geography Publications, Dublin 2009.

Very informative chapter on that period.

@bjg wrote:

. . . . . while others complained of occasional adverse winds from the southwest that prevented ships sailing down the estuary to the sea.

Amazing, one would think that the sailing ships leaving the city back then would have benefited from the flow of the river current.

Still though in the next century others saw a future for Limerick port despite its shortcomings, there was an interesting plan for a “super floating dock” back in 1833. It seems that they intended to build a dam (weir) with locks, from todays Clarion Hotel side to the Westfields on the other side.

See Limerick Museum image.