Fabulous map, very helpful, thank you! Martha ----- Original Message ----- From: "D H" <hallmark1@utvinternet.com> To: <SCOTCH-IRISH@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 8:20 AM Subject: [S-I] How did people travel around Ireland in 1800's? Nice maphere!! > Many people who visit Ireland know how difficult it is to get around using > public transport, but in the 19th century getting around was much easier > as > waterways and railways bloomed in Ireland, > > Railways were growing fast and in all their varieties until they reached > over every county and to the furthest shores. They reached to places as > yet > untouched by proper roads and enabled the produce and the people of the > country to escape their isolation and poverty Some of them have gone from > places condemned as desolate and dying and now crying out for suburban > railways. > > Some were in places so remote it seems incredible that the railway every > came. For some of these places the railway ages was short, maybe only > thirty > years.... > > Excluding existing rail lines, you have these Lost railways > > * Athenry + Ennis Junction,/ Athenry + Tuam, / Bagenalstown + Wexford,/ > Ballymena, Cushendal + Red Bay,/ Ballymena + Larne,/ Cavan + Leitrim,/ > Cork, Bandon + South Coast,/ Cork, Blackrock + Passage,/ Cork + > Macroom Direct,/ Cork + Muskerry, /Cork + Youghal,/ County Donegal,/ > Enniskillen + Bundoran,/ Farranfore + Valentia,/ Fishguard + Rosslare > R + Harbour Co,/ Galway-Clifden,/ Listowel + Ballybunion,/ Londonderry + > Lough Swilly, /Londonderry + Letterkenny, / Sligo + Ballaghadreen Jcn, > / Sligo, Leitrim + Northern Counties, / Tralee + Dingle, / Waterford + > Tramore, / Waterford Dungarvan + Lismore, / Westport + Achill Island, / > West Clare > > > With waterways and railways starting in early 1800's the following map may > help to show the transport available in 1800's for those departing to > foreign countries > > http://www.downrail.co.uk/history/photos/Map_Rail_Ireland_Viceregal_Commission_1906.jpg > > One also has to take into account how News/Gossip etc was spread along > these lines of communication, how people moved around...met others, etc... > > Not quite the Internet but not a bad Inter-Net! > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.1901 / Virus Database: 2109/4704 - Release Date: 12/26/11 >