Naomh Eanna in Hanover Dock, now in the graving dock.Russadale Quarry in Stenness, Orkney photo © Copyright Magnus Dixon 1) Russadale Quarry, Stenness "Dublin Waters: the Liffey, the canals and the port", on the National Archives of Ireland website.Gilligan, published by Gill and Macmillan in 1988 "A History of the Port of Dublin", by H.Ireland’s Inland waterways Ruth Delaney.Anthony Marmion, The ancient and modern ports of Ireland pp 415, 534, 559, 572.Liffey ships & shipbuilding, Pat Sweeney, Mercier 2010.They also built boilers and engines, architectural frames and features for buildings, large metal tanks (as seen in Lockes of Kilbeggan in 1887), railway wagons and bridges, including the swivel predecessor to the McMahon Bridge in 1900, but some of this work was at a second site.įor a list of ships built in Dublin click here References The first one 31M was built by the Ringsend Dockyard Company (1913-1963) Ross & Walpole built most of the second fleet of barges for Guinness, numbers 12 through 21. (which at a later stage was known as the Liffey Dockyard Company) built up to 48 steel motor canal boats for the Grand Canal Company in the 1920s. The Ringsend Dockyard Company (known as McMillan’s) and Vickers (Ireland) Ltd. (click to enlarge, "Shipbuilding" is Old Abbey Street Tracing facts about this event has proved elusive and the veracity of the tale may be a concoction of other stories. It was from slipways on the Dodder that the legendary Ouzel Galley set sail in 1695 on its voyage to the Mediterranean and everlasting fame. Murphy's closed down when O'Rahilly House was built about 1950. Some of the old Ringsend boat yards were still in operation after the WW2. Records Faulkners Dublin journal 24-1-1740 The inventory may be seen at the secretary’s office at the shipbuildings on the North Strand. The brigantine, Thompson burthen 65 tons will be sold to the highest bidder on 19 February next. In 1753 Wilson’s directory records Archibiold & Howard Moore Shipwrights at Georges Quay. Another Dock of 630 by 80 ft was built and became operational in 1957 and was filled in 2009. This dock was in use almost continuously until 1989 when it was filled in but in the late 1990s was fitted with new lock gates and re-opened, but filled in again in 2008. The Graving Dock on the North Wall, completed in 1860, measured 412 by 70 ft (21m), and could accommodate the Holyhead Paddle Steamer. In their advert they point out that they have two private dry docks, one 150 feet long the other 90 feet long. This company built all kinds of floating craft in steel and wood and were also ship repairers and manufacturers of steel for constructions. Ringsend Dockyard (Dublin) Limited in the Grand Canal Basin was identified as McMullan’s by many and the boats built here were known as McMullan boats, after the company's main director and chief builder. Vickers (Ireland) was a subsidiary of Vickers-Armstrong Ltd, but according to Miramar they launched their ships under the Dublin Vickers name on the north side of the Liffey. The Dublin Dockyard Company had a lease on the basins from 1851 until 1881 and managed the two smaller graving docks. One was closed in 1851 and the space used as a coal yard. Gleaned from the Almanack Registry Dublin, in the Gilbert Library, Pearse Street can be viewed hereĭublin Shipbuilding Dublin Dockyards advertīy 1796, there were three Graving Docks were available on the south side in the Grand Canal Basin in Ringsend, the largest 180 by 60 feet. Ringsend foundry In 1829 the Ringsend Foundry built engines for the Marchioness of WelesleyĪ list of Maritime trades in Dublin 1761, Faulkners Dublin journal 24-1-1740.įerry point A reference in Faulkners Dublin Journal describes a location on17-6-1740 as Flanagan’s public house at the ferryboat at the shipbuildingĪrchibold & Howard Moore - The 1753 Wilson’s directory Archibiold & Howard lists Moore Shipwrights at Georges QuayĬurrently occupied by the Naomh Eanna 1800s Slipway at Blackhall Place Before the Liffey was enclosed by walls about 1820 a considerable slipway is mapped at Blackhall place. North StrandThe brigantine Thompson burthen 65 tons will be sold to the highest bidder on 19 February next. At the time there were two yards at Georges quay and another two at Sir J Rogersons Quay Lloyds register for 1761 lists ships built at Dublin from Murphy’s Cardiffs Kehoes, Kinchs. (click to enlarge) site of shipbuilding Yards in 1761
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