Mosstown Harbour (Keenagh)
Keenagh's canal harbour among the Longford bogs, a proven overnight stop near a village with pubs and the Iron Age Corlea Trackway.
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Mosstown Harbour
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Max. stay: Up to 5 days at the same place with a Combined Mooring and Passage permit (canal bye-laws); longer stays need an Extended Mooring permit
Quiet harbour among the bogs serving Keenagh; IWAI flotillas overnight here.
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Permit needed: up to 5 days at one public mooring
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 Mosstown Harbour (Keenagh)
Mosstown Harbour is the canal stop for Keenagh, also spelt Kenagh, a village of about 600 people a short way from the water, with shops, two churches and several pubs. It has proved itself as an overnight stop: when the IWAI's Royal Canal branch cruised up from Clondra in 2024, the crews ate at Mack's Shack, a restaurant in a quirky barn in the village, moved on to Newman's pub, and ended the evening round a turf fire on the quay, with brazier and turf supplied by the people of Keenagh. Three kilometres from the village, the Corlea Trackway Visitor Centre keeps an 18 m stretch of an oak road laid across the bog in 148 BC, the largest of its kind found in Europe, in a hall built to preserve it.
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Mack's Shack
Restaurant in a quirky converted barn in Keenagh that has fed IWAI flotillas staying at the harbour.
Newman's Pub
Cosy village bar in Keenagh, a short way from Mosstown Harbour.
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Corlea Trackway Visitor Centre
Visitor centre 3 km from Keenagh around a preserved section of an Iron Age plank road from 148 BC, the biggest such road yet uncovered in Europe; last admission 17:00.
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- Begnagh Lifting Bridge
- Richmond Harbour, Clondra
- Cloondara Lock (Camlin) Next opening 09:30 (in 8 h 10 min)
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Other sources · Not known “Mosstown Harbour on the Royal Canal in Co. Longford” by JP · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Changes: resized and re-encoded -
Other sources · Not known “Royal Canal - Island Bridge” by John M · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Changes: resized and re-encoded -
Other sources · Not known “Royal Canal near Island Bridge” by John M · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Changes: resized and re-encoded
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