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Sluice or sluice gate in Caherloughlin

Sluice/sluice gate
Sluice or sluice gate in Caherloughlin
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Sluice or sluice gate in Caherloughlin sounds terribly modest for a thing locally called ‘The Regulator’. It was finished just as the Cong Canal was abandoned: promoted to management, arrived for work, and found the entire business had left.

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Sluice, built 1855-6; extant 1894. Now disused. Set spanning Cong Canal with unkempt banks to canal.
A sluice colloquially known as "The Regulator" (Semple 1988, 97) identified as an important component of the mid nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of south County Mayo on account of the connections with the development of the ill-fated Cong Canal (begun 1848; abandoned 1856) under the Drainage (Ireland) Act, 1846.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31312005

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