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Canal lock on former Ulster Canal, built c.1840. Sluice gates absent and lock no longer in use. Cut stone to base of canal to west, openings for ground sluices to side walls, with tooled stone to sill. Coursed, peck-dressed limestone and sandstone walls with tooled copings, and lock gate emplacements visible to each…

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Canal lock on former Ulster Canal, built c.1840. Sluice gates absent and lock no longer in use. Cut stone to base of canal to west, openings for ground sluices to side walls, with tooled stone to sill. Coursed, peck-dressed limestone and sandstone walls with tooled copings, and lock gate emplacements visible to each end. Recesses to tail-gate emplacements to west, to accommodate open sluice gates. Stop-grooves to each side wall to west of tail-gate emplacements. Curved walls to west of lock visible.
Although its gates are missing, this former lock is an interesting and attractive reminder of the Ulster Canal, which was intended to aid industry and the development of the economy in the area through providing a means of transport for passengers and bulk produce. Constructed of dressed stone, which itself is indicative of the skill and craftsmanship of stonemasons and civil engineers involved in its construction, it is of technical as well as social interest, and provides contextual interest to the adjacent lock-keeper's house as well as being an attractive feature in the local landscape.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 41401249

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