A WALK FROM BRIDGE STREET TO NEWTOWNSMITH - THE MIDDLE RIVER[THE WATERWAYS OF GALWAY]-141549 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
A WALK FROM BRIDGE STREET TO NEWTOWNSMITH - THE MIDDLE RIVER[THE WATERWAYS OF GALWAY]-141549 / infomatique
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| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Using Google Maps I requested directions from Bridge Street in Galway to Newtownsmith and what I got was a set of instructions on how to travel to Newtownsmith located near Dun Laoghaire.Newtownsmith in Galway was an important development outside the city walls on the northern side of the town in the late 18th and early 19th century. It was here that the county courthouse was constructed between 1812 and 1815. In 1824 the town courthouse was built. Galway’s second bridge was built in 1819 and connected the courthouses with the new county and town gaols on Nuns Island which had been completed in 1810.Galway features a number of interlocking waterways which pass through the city and they have played a major role in its development as an industrial town.The waterway system is a bit complicated and I am still trying to determine the names of all of the streams, mill races and canals. At various locations within the city there are old canals and mill races running off the Corrib River and I only discovered this week that some of the canals contain trout, due to their limestone bottoms. The average fish is somewhere approaching 1.5 pounds and fishing is free, so if you’ve got the kids with you, you could do worse than take them to one of the canals. Unusually for canals, most of the water is clear enough that you can actually see some of the trout. The main river is the Corrib, which is famed for its salmon weir, and all the other waterways in the city, whether natural or man-made, are inter-connected. To the best of my knowlege there are seven in all and of these the Eglinton Canal is probably the next largest. This runs all the way from the Claddagh Basin to the other side of town, reconnecting with the Corrib at Newcastle. Built between 1845 and 1850 and named after the Earl of Eglinton, it was intended as a conduit between the sea, the Claddagh basin and the Corrib river to Corrib lake and thus it was to provide a clear passageway to Connemara. But it was never a commercial success.Other rivers include the former Gaol river, or Catherdral river, the Middle River, Fisheries River, the Western River and the Slaughter House River. |
| 撮影日 | 2018-06-19 19:47:32 |
| 撮影者 | infomatique , Dublin, Ireland |
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| カメラ | ILCE-7RM3 , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.017 sec (1/60) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.0 |
| 焦点距離 | 24 mm |