Area: Drinagh
Started: February 1959
Finished: August 1959
Poles used: 873
Line used (km): 74
Premises connected: 137
The figures above were sourced from our REO News magazine, to learn more about
what these figures mean, visit our interactive map. 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 April 1959 reports on one of the Biggest ever Poultry exhibitions at Drinagh.
This digital scan from the REO News displays the following text:
"POULTRY WEEK: The E.S.B., headed by Mr. Ennis and the demonstration staff, backed by Public Relations Department, and co‑operating with the Irish Broiler and Turkey Producers’ Association and Mr. W\.J. Quirke of Drinagh Co‑op. Ltd. (recently featured in a National Daily as a model in the Co‑Operative movement), organised one of the biggest ever Poultry Exhibitions at Drinagh.
Manufacturers and Agents for the various poultry nutritions and antibiotics (including Calor Gas) took part, exhibiting a stand and contributing to the series of lectures, demonstrations and film shows – all aimed at helping the poultry producer in the South, and organising the industry with a view to increasing its potential. No one can contradict us that electricity can play a major role in this particular field.
Drinagh Hall, the scene of the exhibition, was bulging at the seams during the evening discussions and other functions. We do not expect that the results of this exhibition will mature overnight, but within the next year or two we could hope that every Rural consumer will be utilising electricity in poultry husbandry – not on the small “pin‑money” scale, but co‑operatively, on a large scale, producing 3‑lb. birds to serve a constantly developing market and – this is the most important part – to provide an unfailing supply. Casual poultry production as it is now mainly conducted, is doomed to failure, because of unreliability of such supply.
May we recommend to each salesman, that when he contacts a consumer who “keeps a few hens”, the potential of such an idea as this, could be put to him – stressing the certain, extensive profits of such a venture, and the indispensable part electricity can play.
Drinagh was such a success that we hope to organise a similar “Poultry Week” in selected centres around the country. From our point of view, the success was due to the combined efforts of Mr. Ennis, Joe Cargney and Pat O’Shea, of H.O., and Messrs. Scallan (R.O.E.), Henry (S.O.) and O’Shea (A.O., Drinagh) of Cork II District."
This digital scan from the REO News displays the following text:
"deserve a pat on the back for this worthy work.
(Incidentally, a contributor to B.B.C. “Any Questions” the other night thought it was “inhuman that modern broiler production methods mean that the chicken never saw the hen from the day it was hatched to the time it was ready for slaughter”.
Rather chicken‑hearted, don’t you think?)"