Barge Lady Cruises: Cruising in Ireland on the Shannon Waterway

Athlone boasts a bar which claims to be Ireland's oldest and the contrast of a newly-built Raddison Hotel behind the 16th Century Shannon Bridge! Mooring here gave time for both walking the town and visiting the pubs as well as unpacking ... After lunch on board, we were again driven by our wonderful Captain to an interesting piece of history going back to 148 BC at the “Corlea Trackway Visitor Centre” which interprets an Iron Age bog road - excavated and preserved by a ...