A Walk Along The Grand Canal From Mount Street To Leeson Street
Image by infomatique
The Grand Canal is the southernmost of a pair of canals that connect Dublin, in the east of Ireland, with the River Shannon in the west, the two canals nearly encircling Dublin’s inner city. Its sister canal on the Northside of Dublin is the Royal Canal. The last working cargo barge passed through the Grand Canal in 1960.
Until 1950 the Grand Canal Company had ownership of the canal, when the Transport Act, 1950 transferred the canal to CIE. This situation continued until the Canals Act, 1986 gave it to the Office of Public Works. Under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, a new all-Ireland body called Waterways Ireland was established in 1999 and assumed responsibility for most inland navigable waterways including the Grand Canal.
Greater Dublin Area: Bridges that cross the Grand Canal:
MacMahon Bridge [Ringsend Road, Pearse Street]
DART bridge (Victoria Bridge)
Macquay’s Bridge [Grand Canal Street]
McKenny’s Bridge [Northumberland Road, Mount Street Lower]
Huband Bridge [Mount Street Crescent]
Macartney Bridge [Baggot Street]
Eustace Bridge (Leeson Street Bridge) [Leeson Street]
Charlemont Bridge [Ranelagh Road, Charlemont Street]
Luas bridge
Portobello Bridge (La Touche Bridge) [Rathmines Road Lower, Richmond Street South]
Robert Emmet Bridge (Clanbrassil Bridge) [Harolds Cross Road, Clanbrassil Street Upper]
Parnell Bridge [Clogher Road]
Dolphin’s Barn Bridge (Camac Bridge) [Dolphin’s Barn, Crumlin Road]
Herberton Bridge (Herberton Bridge)
Rialto Bridge over the former main line of the Grand Canal, now over Luas red line [South Circular Road]
Griffith Bridge [Grand Canal View]
Anne Devlin Bridge [Luas bridge]
Suir Road Bridge (Harcourt Bridge) [Suir Road]
Goldenbridge Footbridge
Blackhorse Bridge (Kelly’s Bridge) [Naas Road, Tyrconnell Road]
New Bridge [Kylemore Road]
Ballyfermot Bridge [Killeen Road]
Park West Avenue
M50 Motorway
Clondalkin Bridge [Ninth Lock Road]
Fonthill Road
Lucan Road Bridge [R120]
Gollierstown Bridge
Hazelhatch Bridge [R405]
Aylmer’s Bridge [Lyons Road]
