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Peat cooling tower faces demolition

Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2004 / July 7 2004: Peat cooling tower faces demolition

The last remaining ESB cooling tower built in the 1950s to exploit peat power is to be demolished. The tower at Bellacorrick was one of the seven that once dominated the flat Midland bog landscape. Two reports have found that to preserve the tower would cost several million euro. According to a report in Heritage Outlook magazine, the demolition of the two cooling towers at Rhode, Co Offaly, last March left only one tower standing.

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