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If you are in Dublin tomorrow you might like to join us at Library Towers for our International Women’s Day lecture: 'What Did the Women Do Anyway' Friday 8 March, 1.05pm Join Liz Gillis, Author and Historian for this talk on the generation of politically active and socially aware women from 1916 – 1923. Spies, gunrunners and propaganda experts. These are just some of roles women undertook during the Irish revolution. They were the 'Invisible Army' without whom the Irish revolution could not have succeeded. All welcome. Booking not required. (or you could just say that Morning Mary invited you!)

I'm not convinced this is in Co. Clare ... Google satellite shows Co. Offaly - www.google.com/maps/@53.1684284,-8.0821827,559m/data=!3m1...

Canal view (July 2018) - goo.gl/maps/KKwrXiveSkQ2

beachcomber australia Yep. There's no lock at Meelick in Clare according to the OSI.

beachcomber australia derangedlemur So Meelick is correct (Google Satellite), and Clare needs to be changed to Offaly?

While not strictly speaking a Railway shot this has enough clues as to its location to make it interesting. We thought you might like the chase to identify what it is and where it is now located????

Well, it's the order of the garter, isn't it?

It looks a bit new to be off Fort Castle, so it's probably from the defunct COI.

It appears to be Ratcliffe, Robert, 5th Earl of Sussex armorial.library.utoronto.ca/stamps/RAT001_s1 What would his stamp be doing cluttering up Offaly?

derangedlemur Both his uncle and father were involved in the plantation of Laois/Offaly.

One for the no longer standing album, according to the ESB it was demolished between 2000 and 2003. They have a link to a newspaper clipping showing one of the cooling towers being demolished.

The ESB also gives a link to a 1970s PR pamphlet about the station, which gives a lot of the technical data, if anyone is interested.

If this was taken in 1961, it was just before the 2nd development was started - so there would be only 3 boilers, as part of the first development. The 4th boiler which had a higher steam pressure was commissioned in January 1964.

Flickr is sometimes amazing! In 2006 by someone familiar,
Niall McAuley!

Those rail tracks you can see there are the same gauge as the famed "West Clare Railway". I took a Pack of Cub Scouts there in the 1980's. We were given a tour of the station and the nearby bog to see how the work was done. The train we travelled on consisted of carriages from the West Clare and naturally we all had to sing "Are you right there Michael" for the driver. No doubt he was suitably impressed:-)
Between them, both the ESB and Bord na Móna, gave us a great day out and at least two of those boys are engineers today who remember that day vividly!

Swordscookie That really sounds like a fascinating day out!