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    The Shannon hydroelectric Scheme was a major development by the Irish Free State in the 1920s to harness the power of the River Shannon. Its product,...
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    State in the 1920s was the Shannon hydroelectric scheme which established the Ardnacrusha power station on the lower Shannon above Limerick. The old Killaloe...
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  • from Drogheda, County Louth, and one of the key people in the Shannon hydroelectric scheme, an early icon of the Irish Free State. He then helped establish...
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  • electricity grid which was largely built based on design work on the Shannon hydroelectric scheme by Siemens-Schuckert. The British BS1363 (localised as Irish...
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  • engineering projects since the foundation of the state and the Shannon hydroelectric scheme. In the 1970s the need for new energy sources became more urgent...
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    2029. Shannon hydroelectric scheme Creatphlean Comhtháite Straitéiseach d'Inbhear na Sionainne (Strategic Integrated Framework Plan for the Shannon Estuary)...
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    as a means of using the excess electricity generated by the Shannon hydroelectric scheme. A prototype was developed by converting petrol railcar 386 to...
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    224 2002 Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme 1929 52°42′20″N 8°36′46″W / 52.70556°N 8.61278°W / 52.70556; -8.61278 (Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme) Ireland...
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    2023 having first invested in the company in 2017. The first Shannon hydroelectric scheme was constructed in 1929 within seven years of independence. Built...
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  • 1000 on Friar's Island in the River Shannon, to the south of Killaloe town. In 1929–30 the Shannon hydroelectric scheme raised the water level and submerged...
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    County Clare, Munster, Ireland, located on the northern bank of the River Shannon. By road, it is 6.6 kilometres (4.1 mi) north of Limerick. The name derives...
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  • Commerce, notably pushing for schemes to increase employment from 1922, which failed, and promoting the Shannon hydroelectric scheme with his minister Patrick...
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    Lough Allen (category River Shannon)
    later collapsing in the 19th century. On the construction of the Shannon hydroelectric scheme in 1925–9, the lake became a storage reservoir for the power...
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    set up to advise on the design of the coins. Blythe funded the Shannon hydroelectric scheme during the late 1920s. Despite his austerity policies in relation...
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    exception to the generally low level of public spending was the Shannon hydroelectric scheme, which provided Ireland's first autonomous source of electricity...
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  • and Commerce, notably pushing through the Shannon hydroelectric scheme, then the largest hydroelectricity project in the world. In 1927, he set up the...
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    construction of the Free State's ambitious Shannon hydroelectric scheme, beginning in 1925. Shannon Scheme No. 2: The Culvert was displayed at the 1933...
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    Mangahao Power Station is a hydroelectric power station near the town of Shannon, New Zealand. After being delayed by war, access road construction and...
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  • Society and the London Zoological Society, and was involved in the Shannon hydroelectric scheme. He died at "Hoop Hill", his residence in Lurgan, in April 1929...
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    constructed on Friar's Island in the River Shannon, to the south of Killaloe town. In 1929–30 the Shannon hydroelectric scheme raised the water level and submerged...
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    employed by the Siemens company to assist in their work on the Shannon hydroelectric scheme. Gwynn went on to become a chartered civil engineer, a Fellow...
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  • impending flooding of its original location Friars Island due to the Shannon hydroelectric scheme. The second church of the parish is the Church of the Sacred...
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    McCarthy, senior civil servant Thomas McLaughlin, designer of the Shannon hydroelectric scheme John Moore SMA, Bishop of Bauchi Kevin Murphy, career civil servant...
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    5 MW each. It utilizes the tail water of Shannon Power House of Joginder Nagar project. Larji hydroelectric project is on river Beas in Kullu district...
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    into the Shannon are the falls of Doonass, the largest fall on the otherwise gently sloping river. Nearby is the location of the hydroelectric power plant...
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  • December 2019. River Shannon Protection Alliance (26 October 2011). "Why we say the Dublin Region Water Supply Project is a bad scheme" (PDF). Archived from...
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    permanent drainage of the site increased with the development of the Shannon hydroelectric scheme. The NPWS conservation objectives for the two types of habitat...
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    Siemens, the government started the Shannon hydroelectric scheme to build a hydroelectric plant on River Shannon. However, unskilled workers were treated...
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    O'Connor, William (2015). "Are Ireland's Large Hydroelectric Schemes Sustainable?". Old River Shannon Trust. Retrieved 8 August 2017. Browne, Bill (2014)...
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    Killaloe, County Clare (category Populated places on the River Shannon)
    from Friar's island to the site of the Catholic Church when the hydroelectric scheme at Ardnacrusha was constructed in the 1920s. Killaloe parish is part...
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