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Carrick-on-Shannon base
Everything for your trip on one page. Save it on the base Wi-Fi before you cast off: it works without a signal, in English, German, French and Dutch.
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In an emergency
Call 112 or 999 and ask for the Coast Guard. Both numbers work in Ireland and in Northern Ireland.
Safety on the waterExample rules: each company writes its own.
Download the maps of your waterway while you are on the base Wi-Fi. The map, the stops and this page then work without a signal.
Upper Shannon: Lanesborough to Carrick
Save for offlineDay by day, with distances, locks and cruising times.
A relaxed week from Carrick-on-Shannon up the Boyle River to Lough Key and Boyle, then back by Leitrim and the Lough Allen Canal with a night under the Iron Mountain.
Moderate Round trip
Photo: Andreas F. Borchert · CC BY-SA 4.0
Seven short days from Carrick-on-Shannon, none much over three hours: Jamestown, the Boyle River to Cootehall and Boyle, a night in Lough Key Forest Park, then Leitrim and Drumshanbo, with no Lough Allen crossing.
Easy Round trip
Photo: Oliver Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0
Three easy nights from Carrick-on-Shannon: Leitrim village, the little Lough Allen Canal past Battlebridge, a night in Drumshanbo and back down to Carrick.
Easy Round trip
Photo: tower10 · CC BY-SA 3.0
For hire companies
Your name, your base and your rules, in four languages, on every guest’s phone.
from €10 per boat per season · minimum €750 per base (introductory, ex VAT)
