Note spelling
eire = burden
whereas
It's not Erie it's Éire which sounds like ae-rih.
Dewitt Clinton made the Erie canal possible by helping fund it. Irish immigrants built the Erie canal.
Erie is one of the 5 great lakes, found between the USA and Canada. Éire is the name for Ireland in the Irish language.
The Irish immigrant diggers used shovels and pick axes.
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It took thousands of Irish laborers with shovels and wheelbarrows to dig the canal in eight years.
The Irish immigrants dug the ditch and the German stone cutters created the locks.
They didn't have earth moving machines back then. The Erie Canal was dug by hand with some animal help.
DeWitt Clinton believed in the Erie Canal and got funding for it. It was designed by Benjamin Wright and built by Irish immigrants.
It took eight years to build the Erie Canal.
Translating as "health", this is an Irish/Scottish drinking toast.