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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tours of the Ardnacrusha power station are available again this year; info here.
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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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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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