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6th Lock, Royal Canal — Dublin 7

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6th Lock, Royal Canal — Dublin 7
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What is recorded here

Double lock, constructed c.1790, as part of Royal Canal. Ashlar limestone chamber walls with gate recesses, cast-iron mooring rings and dressed limestone coping. Replacement timber and mild steel lock gates with timber balance beams. Walls of lower chamber slope up to middle gate. Recesses for stop gates to eastern end. Walls to east end expand to form canal harbour with dressed limestone walls. Remains of three-bay, single-storey lock keeper’s house with snecked limestone walls with dressed limestone quoins to north.

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