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Coalisland Canal (sometimes known as The Tyrone Navigation) is a canal in County Tyrone Northern Ireland and is about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) long. Construction of the canal began in 1733 but progress was slow and it was not officially opened until 1787. The canal was built to reduce the cost of transporting coal from the Tyrone coalfields to Dublin. An extension known as Dukart’s Canal was built to link the coalfields of Drumglass with the head of navigation at Coalisland.