Poolbeg Generating Station
Poolbeg Generating Station, colloquially known as the Poolbeg Stacks, is a power station owned and operated by the Electricity Supply Board of Ireland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Power station
- Description: power generating station in Dublin, Ireland
- Also known as: “Poolbeg Power Station”, “Shellybanks Power Station”, and “The Poolbeg Stacks”
- Address: Pigeon House Road, Dublin
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dublin Waste-to-Energy Facility and Irishtown Nature Park.
Dublin Waste-to-Energy Facility
Power station
Photo: O’Dea, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Dublin Waste-to-Energy Facility, also known as the Poolbeg Incinerator, is a waste-to-energy plant serving the Greater Dublin Area in Ireland, located on the Poolbeg peninsula. Dublin Waste-to-Energy Facility is situated 1 km west of Poolbeg Generating Station.
Irishtown Nature Park
Park
Photo: Gallags6, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Irishtown Nature Park is a small man-made park between Irishtown and Sandymount Strand in Dublin, Ireland. The park contains several kilometres of walking trails along the Poolbeg Peninsula. Irishtown Nature Park is situated 1 km west of Poolbeg Generating Station.
Dublin Bay Power Station
Power station
Photo: Lajmmoore, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dublin Bay Power Station is situated 1¼ km west of Poolbeg Generating Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sandymount and Irishtown.
Sandymount
Suburb
Photo: Doug Lee, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sandymount is a coastal suburb in the Dublin 4 district on the Southside of Dublin in Ireland.
Irishtown
Suburb
Irishtown is an inner suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is situated on the southside of the River Liffey, between Ringsend to the north and Sandymount to the south, and is to the east of the River Dodder.
Clontarf
Suburb
Photo: Warren Buckley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clontarf is an affluent coastal suburb on the Northside of Dublin in the city's Dublin 3 postal district. Historically, there were two centres of population, one on the coast towards the city, and the fishing village of Clontarf Sheds, further north on the coast at what is now Vernon Avenue. Clontarf is situated 2½ km north of Poolbeg Generating Station.
Poolbeg Generating Station
- Categories: combined cycle power station, natural gas-fired power station, and industry
- Location: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.33938° or 53° 20′ 22″ northLongitude
-6.18643° or 6° 11′ 11″ westElevation
12 metres (39 feet)Operator
ESB GroupOpen location code
9C5M8RQ7+QCOpenStreetMap ID
way 23582216OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialGeoNames ID
7284460Wikidata ID
Q7228597
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In Other Languages
From French to Urdu—“Poolbeg Generating Station” goes by many names.
- French: “centrale thermique de Poolbeg”
- French: “Centrale thermique de Poolbeg”
- German: “Kraftwerk Poolbeg”
- Irish: “Cumhachtstáisiún an Phoill Bhig”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Poolbeg kraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Poolbeg kraftverk”
- Ukrainian: “ТЕС Пулбег”
- Urdu: “پولبیگ جینیریٹنگ اسٹیشن”
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