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Inniscarra Dam

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Status
  
Operational

Length
  
247 m (810 ft)

Installed capacity
  
19 MW

Construction began
  
February 1953

Type of dam
  
Buttress

Commission date
  
1957

Height
  
45 m

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Turbines
  
1 x 15 MW, 1 x 4 MW Kaplan-type

Similar
  
Lough Ree Power Station, Shannon hydroelectric scheme, Moneypoint power station, Carnsore Point, Dripsey Castle - Carrignamuck

Inniscarra Dam is a buttress dam located on the River Lee in County Cork, Ireland. Construction of the dam started in February 1953. It is owned and operated by the ESB Group. It has a generation capacity of 19 MW.

Map of Inniscarra Dam, Curraleigh, Co. Cork, Ireland

References

Inniscarra Dam Wikipedia