1
In 1837 a company was projected by Mr. C. Staunton Cahill and others, and a Bill obtained, "to empower land proprietors in Ireland to sink, embank, and remove obstructions in rivers within the district of Loch Corrib, in the province of Connacht." The only work to any note, however, which that Company effected, was the formation of an embankment along the Tir Oileáin side of the river, which was twice swept away. See evidence on Loch Corrib, printed by the House of Commons in 1847. See also page 13 of this work.