Aghada Power Station
Aghada power station is a gas-fired power station located near the entrance of Cork Harbour in Aghada, County Cork. It was built at this location in order to use gas that had been discovered at the nearby Kinsale Head gas field, from which gas was extracted from 1978 until its depletion in 2020.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: John M, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Power station
- Description: Generation facility in County Cork, Ireland
- Also known as: “Long Point”
- Address: Ballincarroonig, Aghada
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Spike Island and Spit Bank Lighthouse.
Spike Island
Islet
Photo: Kondephy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Spike Island is an island of 103 acres in Cork Harbour, Ireland. Originally the site of a monastic settlement, the island is dominated by an 18th-century bastion fort now named Fort Mitchel. Spike Island is situated 3½ km west of Aghada Power Station.
Spit Bank Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: MikaLaureque, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Spit Bank Lighthouse close to Cobh in County Cork, Ireland is a screw-pile lighthouse which marks a shallow bank in the navigable channels of lower Cork Harbour. Spit Bank Lighthouse is situated 3 km northwest of Aghada Power Station.
Cove Fort
Castle
Photo: Charles Vallancey, Public domain.
Cove Fort is a small bastioned land battery to the east of Cobh in County Cork, Ireland. Built as a coastal defence fortification in 1743, on instruction of the then Vice-Admiral of the Coast, it replaced a number of temporary coastal artillery batteries which defended Cork Harbour. Cove Fort is situated 3½ km northwest of Aghada Power Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whitegate and Cobh.
Whitegate
Village
Photo: John M, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitegate is a small village in East Cork on the eastern shore of Cork Harbour in County Cork, Ireland. It lies within the townlands of Ballincarroonig and Corkbeg.
Cobh
Photo: J.Pollock, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cobh is a port in Cork Harbour, County Cork, in southwest Ireland. It's pronounced "cove" and that's what it means, a sheltered harbour. It's part of the commuter belt for Cork city and in 2022 had a population of 14,000.
Crosshaven
Photo: lizard queen, CC BY 2.0.
Crosshaven is a coastal village in County Cork, with a population of 3300 in 2022. It's at the point where the River Owenabue flows into Cork Harbour, and its Irish name is Bun an Tabhairne, "mouth of the river Sabhrann".
Aghada Power Station
- Categories: natural gas-fired power station, combined cycle power station, and industry
- Location: County Cork, Munster, Southwest Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.83388° or 51° 50′ 2″ northLongitude
-8.23327° or 8° 13′ 60″ westElevation
10 metres (33 feet)Inception
1980Operator
ESB GroupOpen location code
9C3HRQM8+HMOpenStreetMap ID
way 71762783OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrial
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In Other Languages
From German to Norwegian Bokmål—“Aghada Power Station” goes by many names.
- German: “Kraftwerk Aghada”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aghada kraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Aghada kraftverk”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Aghada Power Station”. Photo: John M, CC BY-SA 2.0.