McKenney Bridge Lock, County Dublin

What is recorded here

Single canal lock on Grand Canal, constructed c. 1790, to west side of McKenny Bridge. Dressed limestone chamber walls with dressed coping, having rebates for lock gates at north end. Mooring posts to each side of chamber. Replacement timber and mild steel lock gates, timber balance beams. Mooring area to west side of lock.

A well-built canal lock. The lock chamber exhibits good-quality stone masonry and, to the south, the canal expands in width to provide a mooring place for boats waiting to use the lock. It forms part of a small of group of related structures, that includes the nearby bridge. Construction of the canal began in the second half of the eighteenth century to provide freight and passenger transport between the Liffey and Shannon rivers.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 50100536

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Miguel Mendez from Malahide, Ireland, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
DubhEire, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
Spleodrach, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Eric Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Angilbas at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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Dronepicr (edited by King of Hearts ) Edit corrects CA and sharpens image, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
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