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Map extract showing rural electrification areas in County Cork, including Whites Cross, Inniscarra and Ovens.Area: Inniscarra
Started: December 1947
Finished: April 1948
Poles used: 2132
Line used (km): 141
Premises connected: 230

The figures above were sourced from our REO News magazine. Click interactive map to find out more on what the figures mean.

The map above shows the area boundary and is from a digitised version of the original map  used during the scheme. Unfortunately no further information is available for this area in the REO magazine.

Black-and-white photograph showing a crowd gathered around a wooden utility pole during a rural electrification switching-on ceremony, with a person operating an electrical switch mounted on the pole.Switch-on ceremony at Inniscarra, 22 December 1947