Dossier #272 · GRanD 2623
Parteen Weir
🇮🇪Ireland · Shannon River · near Limerick
Built 1927 · Lake Control Dam · data quality: Good
Hydroelectricity ★
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 16 m
- Crest length
- 4,670 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 465 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 114.3 km²
- Average depth
- 4.1 m
- Installed power
- 85 MW
- Catchment
- 10,734 km²
- Avg discharge
- 191,177 L/s
- Elevation
- 26 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 7.7 %
Notes
Lough Derg is a natural lake; at its outlet at Parteen Weir is Ardnacrusha hydropower station (85MW), which is part of the Shannon Scheme
Built 1927
External reference →Provenance
Record 272 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 52.7622, -8.4772.