Hydroelectric power station in Aughnacloy, County Sligo

What is recorded here

Detached single-storey rendered turbine house, built c. 1915. L-plan, water wheel to east. Flat roof missing. Unpainted roughcast walling. Square-headed window openings, thin concrete sills, steel casement windows. Square-headed door opening, door missing. Cast-iron and steel water wheel. On north bank of Feorish River, Foyoges Bridge to west, steep river bank to north.

This water-wheel and turbine station is of historical and technical interest as an early example of localised hydro-electric power generation.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 32403502

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Photo credits

Foggyflies, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Silversyrpher (very busy at the moment) from Scotland, UK, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Kieran Campbell, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
RTG, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Daniel Waters, Co. Sligo, Ireland from Ireland, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0