Robertstown
Irish name: Baile Riobaird
The planned canal village on the summit level, 85 m above the sea, with its grand 1801 canal hotel, a village harbour and slipway, and the start of the Barrow Way.
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Robertstown Harbour
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Max. stay: Up to 5 days at one public mooring with a Combined Mooring and Passage permit
Village harbour on the summit level beside the old canal hotel, with a public slipway.
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Every boat on the canals and the Barrow needs a Waterways Ireland permit on display. The yearly Combined Mooring and Passage permit allows up to 5 days at any one public mooring; visiting boats can get a free 31-day permit once a year. Permits from Waterways Ireland
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About Robertstown
Robertstown was laid out along the canal after it arrived in 1784, on the summit level 85 m above sea level: a row of cottages, a shop and, from 1801, the imposing Grand Canal Hotel for passengers travelling on to Dublin, Waterford and Galway. The hotel closed in 1849, became a constabulary barracks and later a community centre, and it still dominates the waterfront. In the 1960s and 1970s the village’s Canal Festas drew big crowds, and today the community is restoring the trading barge 52M, built in 1928. Boats moor in the village harbour, and there is a public slipway. Robertstown Holiday Village lets self-catering cottages. Lowtown, the junction with the Barrow Line, is just over 1 km west, and the Barrow Way meets the Grand Canal Way here.
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Grand Canal Hotel
The canal company’s 1801 passenger hotel, later a barracks and community centre, still the landmark of the waterfront.
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Barrow Way
The long-distance trail and Barrow Blueway south along the Barrow Line to Athy start here.
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Robertstown Holiday Village
Self-catering holiday cottages in the canal village.
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Other sources · Not known “Moorings on the Grand Canal at Robertstown” by Eirian Evans · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Changes: resized and re-encoded -
Other sources · Not known “The Grand Canal at Robertstown” by Eirian Evans · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Changes: resized and re-encoded -
Other sources · Not known “Grand Canal, Robertstown” by Alex Passmore · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Changes: resized and re-encoded -
Other sources · Not known “Binns Bridge, Robertstown” by Eirian Evans · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Changes: resized and re-encoded
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