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What if a boatman waiting at 16th Lock in Kilcock had told everyone his cargo would be through before dinner? The lock keeper still had his work to do, and the boatman had plenty of time to think of a better promise.

Double canal lock, c.1790, comprising sections of granite ashlar retaining walls with group of three timber lock gates retaining early mechanisms and having integrated pedestrian bridges. Sited on Royal Canal.

This canal lock is a fine and well-maintained lock situated on the Royal Canal. The lock forms a subtle feature on the canal and is one of a group of locks on the section that passes through County Kildare. The construction of the retaining walls is particularly fine and exhibits good quality stone masonry and crisp joints. The lock is of considerable historical and social significance as a reminder of the canal network development in Ireland, which brought about many technical advances and developed commercial activity in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries. An unusual survival is the early mechanisms used to open the timber gates and these are of certain technical or engineering merit.

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Double canal lock, c.1790, comprising sections of granite ashlar retaining walls with group of three timber lock gates retaining early mechanisms and having integrated pedestrian bridges.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11802030

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