Immediately after the Second World War, Bord na Móna recruited some foreign peat experts to help with the development of the industry.
Dr. John Hennig,…
In 1938 a decision was taken to build a turf-fired electricity station at Portarlington which would be operational by 1941. However the war delayed this…
Bord na Móna has always sought to use the latest accounting technology.
In 1949 it installed its first Hollerith punched card equipment, in 1959 it…
There were a number of miscellaneous uses of peat in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which are of some historical interest.
In 1849 the…
Kathleen Doherty remembers the building of Coill Dubh village and the men who came to work and live there. Listen to what she said about…
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