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Screeb

Screeb (Irish: An Scríob, meaning 'furrowed land') is a small village in south-west Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. It is located on the R336 road, north of Casla and southwest of Oughterard. It was previously the location of one of Ireland's few peat-burning power stations.

Power station

Screeb was the site of one of the four smallest of Ireland's peat-burning power stations. This station, along with identical plants at Gweedore, Milltown Malbay and Cahersiveen, was designed to be powered by hand-worked peat with a generation capacity of 5MW's. While this was uneconomic, it was a source of employment locally at the time. The power station eventually closed in 1989.

Screeb House

Screeb House (now styled 'Screebe House') was built c. 1860 as a hunting and fishing lodge and later extended. It was built by Thomas Fuge and was a former residence for the Berridge family, the local landlords in the 19th century. Lord and Lady Dudley (founder of the Dudley Nurses) and Sir William Orpen also spent time in this house. Orpen completed some paintings in the area - "Old John's Cottage" was painted in the nearby house of John (Seán) and Mary Geoghegan in Doire Bhainbh in 1908 and he also painted "The Holy Well" with scenes from the Aran Islands and nearby An Teach Dóite (Maam Cross). As of 2024, the lodge is a hotel and restaurant.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Screebe | ESB Archives". web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 9 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Written Answers - Screeb (Galway) Power Station. – Dáil Éireann (24th Dáil) – Thursday, 15 May 1986 – Houses of the Oireachtas". www.oireachtas.ie. Houses of the Oireachtas. 15 May 1986. Retrieved 26 January 2025.
  3. ^ "ESB Screebe Power Station". RTÉ Archives.
  4. ^ "Screeb House, Rosmuck, County Galway". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  5. ^ "Illustrated letter from William Orpen to Grace Orpen relating news of his work at Screebe Lodge, Maam Cross Roads, Galway | National Gallery of Ireland". www.sourcenationalgallery.ie.
  6. ^ "Sir William Orpen, R.H.A., R.A. (1878-1931) Gardenia St. George". christies.com. Christie's.
  7. ^ "Screebe House - Discover Unparalleled Tranquility - Luxurious Comfort on the Wild Atlantic Way". Screebe House.

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