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Lagan Boat Company

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Lagan Boat Company
Lagan Boat Company
Lagan Boat Company
Lagan Boat Company
Lagan Boat Company
Lagan Boat Company
Lagan Boat Company
Lagan Boat Company
Lagan Boat Company
Lagan Boat Company
Lagan Boat Company
Lagan Boat Company
Lagan Boat Company
Lagan Boat Company
Lagan Boat Company
Phone:
+44 28 9024 0124

Hours:
Sunday11:30am - 10pm
Monday11:30am - 10pm
Tuesday11:30am - 10pm
Wednesday11:30am - 10pm
Thursday11:30am - 10pm
Friday11:30am - 10pm
Saturday11:30am - 10pm


The Lagan Canal was a 27-mile canal built to connect Belfast to Lough Neagh. The first section, which is a river navigation, was opened in 1763, and linked Belfast to Lisburn. The second section from Lisburn to Lough Neagh includes a small amount of river navigation, but was largely built as a canal. At its peak it was one of the most successful of the Irish canals, but ultimately it was unable to compete with road and rail transport, and the two sections were closed in 1954 and 1958. The central section from Sprucefield to Moira was destroyed by the construction of the M1 motorway in the 1960s. Responsibility for most of its remains passed first to the Department of Agriculture and then to the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure, although the section between Aghalee Bridge and Lough Neagh, including the final ten locks, passed into private ownership. There is an active campaign to re-open the canal, including reinstatement of the central section.
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