Navigating Ardnacrusha
The Western Mail & South Wales News of 19 April 1929 had an article by M Franklin Thomas about “Ireland’s Big Engineering Scheme”. The article was illustrated with a map and three photographs were...
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The current at Killaloe
I have been known to complain about the absence [on the interweb] of information about the state of the Shannon downstream of Banagher and Meelick. Waterways Ireland On the Waterways Ireland website,...
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Tours of the Ardnacrusha power station are available again this year; info here.
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Ardnacrusha tours
From 26 June through 1 September 2017, ESB will be providing guided tours of Ardnacrusha hydroelectric power station. It’s not usually open to the public and, if you haven’t seen it, it’s well worth a...
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Building Ardnacrusha
I had a page with photos of the construction of Ardnacrusha in 1930; I have expanded that page to include photos taken in the 1920s by Eyre Chatterton and kindly supplied by Tony and Blair Chatterton...
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Building Ireland
There is a television series called Building Ireland, about “Ireland’s building and engineering heritage”. A series of six programmes will begin on Friday 30 September 2016 at 8.30pm on RTÉ One, which...
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Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and O’Briensbridge
Boogie on over to the splendid David Rumsey Historical Map Collection and put ireland shannon in the search box. All going well, you’ll get a set of 14 pages published by Generalstab des Heeres (the...
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ESB water discharge info
Here is the ESB’s Notifications page, with info on the rate of discharge from its hydroelectric dams and weirs. Today (14 December 2015) Parteen Villa Weir is discharging 440 cumecs (cubic metres per...
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What’s a cumec, Daddy?
I don’t know, but here’s a picture of 415 of them flowing through Castleconnell. [Update 13 December: that may be only 405 cumec.] 415 cumecs on 12 December 2015 Actually, a cumec is one cubic metre of...
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Why the Shannon floods
From the search terms used, it seems that many people are visiting this site with questions about Parteen Villa Weir, water levels, Shannon floods and so on. They are not this site’s primary focus, but...
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Shannon water levels 8 December 2015
North to south (more or less) Shannonbridge upstream Shannonbridge downstream Shannon Harbour: 36th lock Shannon Harbour: below the 36th Shannon Harbour: road to Banagher closed Banagher: the harbour...
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Hard sums on Lough Derg
According to the Clare Champion, a Clare county councillor called Pat Hayes, who is a member of Fianna Fáil [an excitable lot, Fianna Fáil], is boycotting something or other for some reason that is not...
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Please don’t look at these photos
I regret to say that I have published, on these pages, several photos of the Shannon, Parteen Villa Weir, Ardnacrusha hydroelectric power station and its headrace and tailrace canals. The storage basin...
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Irish GIS data
Not good enough, it seems: the Ardnacrusha headrace and tailrace are missing.Filed under: Ashore, Built heritage, Canals, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Forgotten...
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Salmon at Ardnacrusha
Might a salmon cannon work?Filed under: Built heritage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Foreign parts, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Natural heritage, Operations,...
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Eel update
Dr William O’Connor says that no elver traps are operating on the River Shannon.Filed under: Ashore, Built heritage, Canals, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Foreign...
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Pathé on Shannon
Shannon floods 1959 1 Shannon floods 1959 2 Pylons! The Carrick-on-Suir creamery chimney (Shannon Scheme electrification) Building the headrace Filed under: Ashore, Built heritage, Drainage, Economic...
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Draining Lough Derg
The ESB is currently letting more water down the old course of the Shannon, from Parteen Villa Weir through O’Briensbridge, Castleconnell and the Falls of Doonass. This channel gets the first 10 cubic...
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Ardnacrusha
A press release just in from Waterways Ireland: Waterways Ireland Change Advice on Travel into Limerick Waterways Ireland is changing the advice on travel from Ardnascrusha into the Limerick Navigation...
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