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If you think the CRT are bad, you should look in to the estates of any of the actual major historic landowners, Duke Fuckerton of Cuntsford, and the like.
They claim that they own the riverbed, literally the dirt under the water, which gives them rights to ban people from swimming, canoeing, fishing, etc.
One of the things that helped with the relative prosperity of Belfast is that George Chichester, 2nd Marquess of Donegall, had amassed huge gambling debts so the family had to sell off their extensive property holdings. This was about the mid nineteenth century. There was something of an industrial boom up until the partition of Ireland.
The amazing thing is also that in the south, all waterways are public rights of way.