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Boat Hire and Travel Guide to the Shannon River in Ireland.

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Dromod is a small village on the main N4 Dublin to Sligo road. Just three kilometres from Roosky and ten kilometres from Carrick on Shannon, this small village is a stopping point on the Dublin Sligo railway line and is ideally situated. A short walk from the main road will bring you to Dromod harbour on the shores of lough Bofin, where many cruisers and barges will stop and stay for the hospitality of this village.

Dromod always does well in the national tidy towns competition, and was runner-up in the year 2000. The Cavan and Leitrim railway offers short steam train journeys and a history of the old narrow gauge railway system that ran through Cavan and Leitrim.

History

Derrycarne narrows (derraigh carn - the wood of the cairn) seperate lough Bofin from Lough Boderg and was an important crossing point in the past. A communal grave was built for the dead from a battle between the Williamite forces and Sarsfields army, but it's believed that the cairn that gives the area its' name pre-dates this battle.

It would seem that Dromod was always a popular stopping point on the Shannon, poised as it is between Lough Bofin and Lough Boderg. The original harbour was built in 1829 at a cost of £139. At that time there was a small store and a crane for lifting goods. The Board of Works lowered the walls of the old harbour to accommodate modern cruisers, and a new harbour has been constructed to cope with the increase in traffic.

This travel guide is available free of charge due to the travel agents commission taken on boat hire services on the river. Feel free to browse the site at your leisure - all we ask is that if you are taking a boating holiday on the Shannon, you book it through the Shannon River web site.