Screeb
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Screeb (Irish: An Scríob, meaning 'furrowed land') is a small village in south-west Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. It is located on the R336 road, north of Casla and southwest of Oughterard. It was previously the location of one of Ireland's few peat-burning power stations.
Screeb was the site of one of the four smallest of Ireland's peat-burning power stations. This station, along with identical plants at Gweedore, Milltown Malbay and Cahersiveen, was designed to be powered by hand-worked peat with a generation capacity of 5MW's.[1] While this was uneconomic, it was a source of employment locally at the time.[2][3] The power station eventually closed in 1989.
