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England and Wales, reporting on canals, bridges, docks and rail roads. On his resignation in 1810 the Board recorded that Killaly had 'conducted himself with the most unwearied assiduity and the most perfect and unimpeached integrity' during his service to the company.
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By this time he had become the company's chief with a salary of around £800. On the opening of the canal in 1803 he became an engineer under the
Directors-General of Inland Navigation, whilst still receiving a reduced salary from the Grand Canal company until 1810. In 1805, he was sent on a six-week
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In 1799, Killaly married Alicia
Hamilton, a daughter of George Hamilton, the owner of the principal flour mill on the Tullamore River. In 1804, Killaly leased the mill property from him at an annual rent of the £300 and moved into the Mill House, with his growing family, which eventually numbered
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Between 1820 and 1826, Killaly was seconded by the government to deal with some 88 miles of road improvements to provide employment in Clare, parts of
Limerick, Galway, Mayo and Roscommon, including numerous bridges. At times he was responsible for more than 9,000 workers in these famine relief
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had attempted to stem the water leakage by using 'ribs of clay' and eventually one of the directors of the company, Richard
Griffith, challenged this approach and Killaly adopted a much more gentle profile that stabilized the canal, though it was to remain a problem. For the extension from
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schemes. Reporting in 1822, Killaly said "the great destruction of morals and waste of public property which have taken place in the county of Clare from this cause (jobbing) is beyond my power to calculate" and in 1830 he expressed the hope that the
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Directors-General to complete the line to the Shannon. Killaly resurveyed the route from the summit west of
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four sons and three daughters. Three of his sons (Hamilton
Hartley, Richard Griffith and Benjamin) later graduated from the University of Dublin and two of them became civil engineers like their father.
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