Residents opposed to ESB substation expansion

A village in East Cork has raised a raft of objections to plans by Eirgrid to extend an ESB substation in their community as part of the overall upgrading of the national electricity grid.

Knockraha is also the starting point of the controversial Gridlink pylon project which is seeking to build a corridor of 400kV pylons from Co Cork to Wexford and on to Co Kildare. There has been strong opposition in Knockraha to both plans as the existing electricity substation already means that the hinterland is dotted with powerlines.

Eirgrid says it wants to “reconfigure and extend” the existing substation at Knockraha about eight miles from Glanmire.