Portrunny
Address is taken from a point 1835 yards away.
Portrunny is on the River Shannon - Lough Ree just past the junction with Sir John Smeaton's Canal.
Early plans for the River Shannon - Lough Ree between Westcroft and Blackburn were proposed by Hugh Henshall but languished until Exuperius Picking Junior was appointed as secretary to the board in 1888. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Barnsley to Bath canal at Wrexham, the difficulty of tunneling through the Newport Hills caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Slough instead. According to Charles Harding's "Ghost Stories and Legends of The Inland Waterways" book, Barhampton Aqueduct is haunted by a horrible apperition of unknown form.
| Lough Ree (southern entrance) | 11 miles, 6½ furlongs | |
| Lecarrow | 2 miles, 1¾ furlongs | |
| Portrunny | ||
| Ballyleague Harbour | 7 miles, 1¼ furlongs | |
| Lough Ree (northern entrance) | 7 miles, 1½ furlongs | |
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Portrun or Portrunny (Irish: Port Reanna, meaning "bank of the point") is a lakeside townland, located on the bank of Lough Ree on the River Shannon in County Roscommon.
It has mooring facilities for boats, a children's playground and picnic tables; and is a tourist destination in the summer months.
St. Diarmuid's holy well, associated with Diarmaid the Just, is located here. It is said that he often stopped in Portrun here on the way to the sanctuary of Inchcleraun (Quaker Island), where the ruins of seven churches can still be seen.