1838 – Camlin Castle, Co. Donegal
Architect: John B. Keane
A rebuilding project by John B. Keane incorporating parts of an earlier 17th century house for John Tredennick.
Erne Hydro Electric Scheme
The Erne Hydro Electric Scheme was the largest construction project of its time in Ireland, bringing a workforce of approximately 1,500 to the town of Ballyshannon.
Construction began in 1946, with building the dams at Cliff and Cathaleen’s Fall, and ended in 1955 with the commissioning of a second turbine at Cliff Station. It also required the destruction of a late seventeenth-century bridge, a number of nearby country houses including Camlin Castle, Stonewold, Laputa and Cliff House and a number of other dwellings
1850s – Cliff House, Belleek, Co. Fermanagh
Cliff House, was rebuilt by a Thomas Conolly, an Irish Conservative Party politician as a summer residence. He was the Member of Parliament for Donegal from 1849 until his death in 1876.
1951 – Cathaleen’s Fall Power Station, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
The Erne Hydro Electric Scheme utilises the natural drop of 45m between the two power stations at Cliff and Cathleen’s Fall on the River Erne to form the basis for the third-largest hydro operation in the country.
