Experience the workings of a 240-year-old Lock!
This is a calm relaxing cruise through the Kildare countryside, and is our recommended cruise for birthday parties. You can book the morning weekend charter or mid week tickets online. Please Contact us for afternoon private charter.
You’ll learn some Grand Canal history along the way chatting with the skipper, while immersed in nature for a two and a half hour morning cruise.
Over Leinster Aqueduct and on wards, you get to admire the workings of 240-year-old Digby Lock, learn of the hard lives of the navvies who built the canal, of the heavy horses that ruled the towpaths – and discover the Leonardo da Vinci connection!
Sallins to Digby Lock ( return )
Duration: 2.5 hours
Departs: 10 am or 2.15 pm (Private Charter only in the afternoons.)
Max Group Size: 12 (no minimum group size on private hire)
A barge trip is suitable for all ages. Small children will be given a life-jacket on boarding and children must be supervised at all times by a parent/guardian.
Our barge is a lovingly restored traditional canal barge that is licensed to carry 12 passengers. It has a spacious comfortable interior with a wood burning stove, on-board bar service and outdoor seating areas. You can combine your cruise with a meal in one of the waterfront restaurants in Sallins afterwards.
Sallins is where trade on the Grand Canal first began when passenger and cargo barges started hauling their horse drawn loads between the small Kildare village and Dublin in 1780.
Today Sallins is a bustling inland harbour village with 4 award winning restaurants & bars on the waterfront, and an array of boats, barges, houseboats and a brewery. It is 30 mins from Dublin city center with trains from the capital every hour.