Ulster Canal

Ulster Canal
The remains of the Ulster Canal at Tyholland
Specifications
Length	74 km (46 miles)
Locks	26
Status	largely abandoned
History
Date completed	1842
Date closed	1931
Geography
Start point	Charlemont, Lough Neagh
End point	Wattlebridge, Upper Lough Erne

v t e Ulster Canal
Legend
River Bann Lagan Canal Lough Neagh Upper Bann + Newry Canal Coalisland Canal (derelict) River Blackwater 1 Charlemont lock 2 Blackwatertown lock Tullymore Bridge Maydown Bridge 3-8 Benburb flight Caledon aqueduct Tynan Bridge 9 lock Middleton aqueduct 10 lock 11-17 lock flight Monaghan 18-19 lock flight Quig Lough feeder Summit pound 20 lock 21 lock 22 Templegate lock Finn River aqueduct 23-24 Glear locks Clones Cloncorick Bridge 25 Gartnacarrow lock 26 lock River Finn Lough Erne + River Erne Shannon–Erne Waterway

The Ulster Canal is a canal running through part of County Armagh, County Tyrone and County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland and County Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland. The Ulster Canal was built between 1825 and 1842 and was 74 km (46 mi) long with 26 locks. It ran from Charlemont on the River Blackwater to near Wattlebridge on the Finn River, south-east of Upper Lough Erne. It was an ill-considered venture, with the locks built narrower than the other Irish waterways, preventing through trade, and an inadequate water supply. It was an abject failure commercially, and contributed to the collapse of the Lagan Navigation Company, who took it over from the government but were then refused permission to abandon it when they could not afford the maintenance costs. It finally closed in 1931. Waterways Ireland started work on rebuilding the canal at its southern end in 2015.