Search
06 Sept 2025
Search
06 Sept 2025
Please allow ads as they help fund our trusted local news content.
Kindly add us to your ad blocker whitelist.
If you want further access to Ireland's best local journalism, consider contributing and/or subscribing to our free daily Newsletter .
Support our mission and join our community now.
To continue reading this article, you can subscribe for as little as €0.50 per week which will also give you access to all of our premium content and archived articles!
Alternatively, you can pay €0.50 per article, capped at €1 per day.
Thank you for supporting Ireland's best local journalism!
Waterways Ireland has lodged a planning application with Laois County Council to carry out repair works on the Barrow Navigation.
The work includes bank repairs and bank strengthening, maintenance dredging and back drain cleaning along the river in the townlands of Clogrenan, Crossneen and Ballyhide.
The maintenance programme is scheduled to take place over a five year period and Waterways Ireland has also submitted separate planning applications to Kildare and Carlow County Councils for work to be carried out along the navigation in the various counties.
The proposed works in Laois include the provision of a temporary access road through an adjoining agricultural field linking Leighlin Road with the Barrow Trackway, in order to facilitate the maintenance dredging.
A spokesperson for Waterways Ireland said: "All of the works seeking permission would historically have been undertaken on the Barrow Navigation by Waterways Ireland and its predecessor authorities without the need for planning permission. Due to recent changes in environmental and planning legislation, certain aspects of this normal maintenance work now require consent from the relevant planning authority.
"Waterways Ireland is now required, in certain instances, to apply to the relevant planning authority for planning consent to undertake maintenance activities."
Submissions on the plans can be made to the local authority by March 13 with a decision due by planners on April 3.
Subscribe or register today to discover more from DonegalLive.ie
Buy the e-paper of the Donegal Democrat, Donegal People's Press, Donegal Post and Inish Times here for instant access to Donegal's premier news titles.
Keep up with the latest news from Donegal with our daily newsletter featuring the most important stories of the day delivered to your inbox every evening at 5pm.
This publication supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice of the Press Council. You can obtain a copy of the Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, Lo-call 1800 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie.
