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

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It would be hard to believe that the small sleepy village of Jamestown was once a fortified town, but the remains of the stone entrance to the town are still intact, and easy to see. Just outside the town is a weir, although the naviable limit of the Shannon is at Jamestown Bridge. If you were to continue past the bridge and down the weir, you would come to Drumsna. Both of these picturesque villages were on a loop in the Shannon, which was bypassed by the Jamestown canal in the late eighteenth century.

History

A charter was granted by King James I to fortify the town, and a six metre high, two metre thick wall was erected around the town. There was also a castle in the town, but despite all the fortifications the town changed hands many times.

There are still many remnants of the fortifications around the little village, the most obvious of which is the gateway to the town. The top of the archway was removed to allow heavy goods vehicle access, but the town has since been bypassed, and there's hope that the original archway will be replaced.

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.