Area: Rockhill
Started: September 1955
Finished: April 1956
Poles used: 974
Line used (km): 90
Premises connected: 210
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 June 1956 informs us that sales were excellent in Rockhill.
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"Rockhill Rural Area, Co. Limerick: We are glad to congratulate Mr. Tynan and his crew in Rockhill on improving the area return from 5.79% to 5.89%, and there is the possibility that they may have done themselves less than justice in not taking credit for 55 consumers lost to the area by being connected prior to the development of the area. Unit costs at 38/- were very good when it is considered that the retrospective payments of the increases in wages had to be carried by the area.
The Area Organiser, Mr. Whyte, had to go on leave for an operation for appendicitis during construction and in his absence local traders made the most of their position. In spite of this he had an excellent sales total of £1,520 including 10 pumps, 6 cookers and 5 washing machines. We must, therefore, congratulate him particularly on his achievement. The report notes that the quality of wiring contractors"
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"was poor; that the operators ranged from tailors to carpenters, each using his own novel and sometimes impossible ideas about installation."