tarboat's photos with the keyword: galway

As the sun dips below the horizon the swifts are flying in huge numbers just before going to roost in the extensive reedbeds below Meelick Lock on the Shannon. It was actually pouring with rain too!

A murmuration of swifts over the River Shannon at Victoria Lock, Meelick. This is the meeting point of Counties Offaly, Tipperary and Galway. It was pouring with rain at the time.

The 150 megawatt West Offaly power station was supplied each year with around 1 million tons of peat from the bogs in the region around Shannonbridge. Adjacent to the power station the narrow gauge railway that brought in the peat crossed the River Shannon on this viaduct. The train is heading away from the power station and back to the bogs for another load. All this has ended with the closure of the power station on December 11, 2020 after permission to continue burning peat was refused.

The 150 megawatt West Offaly power station was supplied each year with around 1 million tons of peat from the bogs in the region around Shannonbridge. Adjacent to the power station the narrow gauge railway that brought in the peat crossed the River Shannon on this viaduct. The train is heading away from the power station and back to the bogs for another load. All this has ended with the closure of the power station on December 11, 2020 after permission to continue burning peat was refused.

Sunset at Rossmore Quay on the Galway shore of Lough Derg. Jefferson surveys the barge that had brought us to this quiet place for the night.

Nisent type corrugated iron building at the Waterways Ireland wharf at Portumna on the River Shannon.