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Offaly County Library River Shannon Item
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Shannon improvement petition

A petition to The Right Honorable Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Bt, Chief Secretary for Ireland, on behalf of the owners of lands periodically injured by Shannon inundations. The petition asks that the river would be confined to its bed during hay time, to keep the flood level to a moderate depth, states that they are willing to pay a proper proportion of the expenses, that Killaloe to Castleconnell would be left out of the improvements, that regulating weirs should be constructed, that steam dredges should be procured, that the Shannon Act of 1874 should be amended. The petition was signed by [Viscount] Avonmore and T. Butler Stoney.

Trench, Benjamin Bloomfield