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06 Sept 2025

Kildare canal jetty should be brought back to use

Car free canal in Naas is proving popular and will be extended

The Grand Canal harbour, Naas

A local politician wants a jetty on the Grand Canal in Naas to be put into use again.

Cllr Seamie Moore told a Naas Municipal District meeting that Waterways Ireland should undertake a survey of the jetty, located at the old gas works, with a view to preserving and upgrading it.

He said it is “a piece of the industrial heritage of the canal area in Naas.”

The jetty was associated with the off-loading of coal from canal boats.

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