A lecture 'The Sailing Trawlers of Ringsend' is to be held in the National Maritime Museum of Ireland, Dun Laoghaire.

The lecture is to take place on Thursday, March 24th (19:30 – 21:00).

Cormac Lowth will explore the Ringsend Trawlers which for one hundred years, from 1818 until 1919, there was a large fleet of sailing trawlers based in Ringsend, moored along the Pigeonhouse Road.

The first of the boats came from Brixham in Devon, and many of the crews settled in Ringsend and intermarried with the locals.

Many descendants still live in Ringsend from where on the bank of the River Dodder, many of the subsequent fleet were built in boatyards on the tributory of the River Liffey.

At its height, there were about seventy of these vessels in Ringsend. Over the century there were about three hundred of them in all.

For much more on this maritime heritage lecture click here in addition to book tickets available from Eventbrite, costing €5 plus booking fee.

The NMMI is located in the Old Mariners' Church, Haigh Terrace which is close to the Dun Laoghare DART station.