Lagan Canal Progresses Toward Lough Neagh.

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Document ID 9808401
Date 16-06-1785
Document Type Newspapers (Shipping News)
Archive Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Citation Lagan Canal Progresses Toward Lough Neagh.; PRONI D 2015/5/7; CMSIED 9808401
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Transcribed from the Belfast Newsletter, 16 June, 1785.

A number of gentlemen of this town went in a body a few
days ago to see the canal at present carrying on between
Belfast and Lough Neagh.  They returned with a very high
report of Mr. Owens the engineer etc.  By Christmas next
he expects the lighters may pass from Belfast to
Soldierstown.