Survey Data
Reg No
31312005
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Sluice/sluice gate
Date
1850 - 1860
Coordinates
113254, 259269
Date Recorded
13/12/2010
Date Updated
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Description
Sluice, built 1855-6; extant 1894. Now disused. Set spanning Cong Canal with unkempt banks to canal.
Appraisal
A sluice colloquially known as "The Regulator" (Semple 1988, 97) identified as an important component of the mid nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of south County Mayo on account of the connections with the development of the ill-fated Cong Canal (begun 1848; abandoned 1856) under the Drainage (Ireland) Act, 1846.