Coalisland Canal
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coalisland-canal-183-9892164
title:
Coalisland Canal
text:
Coalisland Canal is a 7.2-kilometre-long (4.5 mi) canal in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Construction of the canal began in 1733, but progress was slow and it was not officially opened until 1787. The canal was built to reduce the cost of transporting coal from the Tyrone coalfields to Dublin. An extension known as "Dukart's Canal" was built to link the coalfields of Drumglass with the head of navigation at Coalisland. It opened in 1777 but was an engineering failure and closed when the main
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Canal in Northern Ireland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalisland_Canal
date created:
2006-06-28T16:49:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T10:59:31Z
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