Area: Croom
Started: September 1955
Finished: February 1956
Poles used: 919
Line used (km): 80
Premises connected: 262
The figures above were sourced from our REO News magazine, to learn more about what these figures mean, visit our interactive map page. The map above shows the area boundary and is from a digitised version of the original map used during the scheme.
The REO News from June 1956 reports that rock caused some problems in Croom.
This digital scan from the REO News displays the following text:
"Croom Rural Area, Co. Limerick: Mr. Harnett tells us that Croom is a small compact area but that construction progress was retarded by reason of the fact that approximately 65% of the pole holes were in rock. Both capital costs and revenue increased, the latter by a slightly better percentage and the return improved from 5.75% to 5.85%, a result on which the crew are to be commended.
Sales by the Organiser, Mr. J. Penny, reached the excellent total of £1,630, a particularly satisfactory figure when it is recalled that Mr. Penny was absent from the area for about three weeks on the training course in Head Office. We noted that the 6 pumps sold included in most cases the necessary G.B. tubing and in light of recent conditions we must specially commend Mr. Penny on the sale of 21 3‑plate cookers."