Area: Kilbride
Started: December 1947
Finished: May 1948
Poles used: 1011
Line used (km): 92
Premises connected: 235
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 benefits a of piped water supply were highlighted in The REO News from January 1961
This digital scan from the REO News displays the following text:
"Quote from the Water Conference
“Many men in rural Ireland are not yet fully aware of the advantages of piped water supply. Very often they will get a water supply with the advantage of the stock in mind rather than the housewife, and very often if the stock don’t want water, the housewife has to do without it also. This is just where you take over. Let your menfolk know you will not tolerate such treatment. Tell them you didn’t want to end up in your old age with a bad heart got from dragging buckets of water over long distances. Proclaim to them the gospel of rural water, try to get them to form local groups and when they form such a group get them to co‑operate 100% in the carrying out of the work. Rural electrification was the rural social achievement of the 1950’s, let rural aquafication be the rural social achievement of the 1960’s. Tell your menfolk of what has been done in Kilbride and many other areas of Ireland and say to them: ‘Go and do thou in like manner.’”—Fr. Joseph Collins, C.C., Manor Kilbride."