Have you seen the LOVELY GRAND CANAL, DUBLIN - a beautiful oasis in the city centre?

This is south Dublin we're visiting the beautiful Grand Canal. It stretches from the River Liffey and exits Dublin’s suburbs at Adamstown it then meanders its way through County Kildare to Shannon harbour in county Offaly.

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This part of the canal in the south of Dublin city once serviced the Grand Canal Harbour and the Guinness Brewery, now for the most part it runs alongside the Luas Red line (which you can see here). For those watching outside Ireland, the Luas is the Dublin tram network and I’ve made a separate film on that.

The Grand Canal, one of two canals which almost incircle Dublin’s inner city, the other being the Royal Canal, sits along the south of Dublin, but is in fact 132 km long and connects with the River Shannon I the West of Ireland.

Our journey on foot today begins at the section of canal near Goldenbridge Graveyard and we’ll be dandering down as far as Upper leasson Street. Along the way we’ll see some of the wonderful buildings, some modern, and some dating back to the 17 hundreds that have sprung up along the route. Either because of it’s strategic importance, or more recently because it’s a fashionable place to live.

The style of housing along the route varies enormously as you can see. Having just passed a row of Georgian cottages, we’re now passing typical 1950’s corporation housing stock.

As you can see wildlife is in abundance along the route and it’s amazing to be able to encounter this so close to the city centre.

This canal was owned by the Office of Public Works until, interestingly, after the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 a new all-Ireland body was set up called Waterways Ireland who now control the canal. So, you could say that the Island’s waterways are united even if Ireland itself isn’t.

This towpath we’re walking on would once have hosted mightly horses which would have pulled the barges and their consignments of Guinness or whatever in and out of the city.

It seems to be a very popular place for people to go jogging as you’ve seen. And why not. It almost feels like you’re in the countryside here after all.

There’s quite a lot of new housing and apartments, like everywhere else in Dublin I guess. Sometimes `I wonder who can affort them – Dublin has some of the highest house prices in Europe.

The Portabello area is quite a hip part of Dublin, with lots of nice bars and restaurants. As you can see this is a very picturesque part of the city. Lovely buildings and the embankement is particularly nice here with its lines of mature trees.

We finish our walk at Lesson Street Upper, but of course we could continue all the way down to the River Liffey.

Distinct signs of an urban landscape now as we prepare to leave the canal and enter the hustle and bustle of the city again. But, what a great little oasis the Grand Canal is in south Dublin. A brilliant way to escape from it all.

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