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| Type | Public - Semi-State Company |
| Founded | Ireland (1946) |
| Headquarters | Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland |
| Key people | ? |
| Products | Firepak Firelogs Firelighters Peat Briquettes Coal Peat Fertiliser |
| Employees | 2,000 (2004) |
| Website | www.bnm.ie/ |
Bord na Móna (lit. A public company usually refers to a company that is permitted to offer its registered securities ( Stock, bonds, etc Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Newbridge (Droichead Nua is a town in County Kildare, Ireland, near the Irish midlands County Kildare (Contae Chill Dara is an Irish County located to the southwest of Dublin in the province of Leinster. In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Peat Board) is a semi-state company in the Republic of Ireland, created in 1946 by the Turf Development Act, 1946. Peat is an accumulation of partially Decayed Vegetation matter. Ireland ( Irish: Éire, ˈeːrʲə is a country in north-western Europe. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The company is responsible for the mechanised harvesting of peat, primarily in the Midlands of Ireland. Peat is an accumulation of partially Decayed Vegetation matter. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world Extensive bogland is exploited in County Offaly, County Longford and County Westmeath, mainly the Bog of Allen. A bog or mire is a Wetland type that accumulates Acidic Peat, a deposit of dead plant material &ndash usually Mosses but also County Offaly (Contae Uíbh Fhailí is a County in Leinster, Ireland, bordered by seven other counties Galway, Roscommon, Westmeath County Longford (Contae an Longfoirt is a county situated in the Irish Midlands, in northwest Leinster. County Westmeath (Contae na hIarmhí is a County situated in the Irish midlands, also popularly called the "Lake county" in the western part of the province The Bog of Allen ( Móin Alúine in Irish is a large Peat Bog in the centre of Ireland between the rivers Liffey and Shannon
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History
The company was originally established in 1933 as the Turf Development Board, Limited, to manage this relatively plentiful natural resource. Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Natural resources are naturally occurring substances that are considered valuable in their relatively unmodified ( natural) form During WWII it was necessary to stockpile peat as a fuel, as coal was in short supply; this cemented the drive for mechanised peat harvesting. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including A stockpile is a pile or storage location for bulk materials forming part of the Bulk materials handling process Fuel is any material that is burned or altered in order to obtain energy
Harvesting
Peat was traditionally manually harvested by operating cutaway bogs. This method (still privately used today) consists of sods being vertically cut from the side face of a peat deposit. Technology was derived to mechanically cut and remove layers of peat from blanket bogs. Technology is a broad concept that deals with a Species ' usage and knowledge of Tools and Crafts and how it affects a species' ability to control and adapt Blanket bog or Blanket Mire is an area of peatland forming where there is a climate of high rainfall and a low level of evapotranspiration allowing peat to develop not Today, equipment is used to remove tonnes of peat each day at suitable times of year (rainfall is a significant variable in peat harvesting). This article is about the tonne or metric ton For other tons see Ton. A day (symbol d is a unit of Time equivalent to 24 Hours and the duration of a single Rotation of planet Earth with respect to the Rain is Liquid precipitation. On Earth it is the condensation of atmospheric Water vapor into drops heavy enough to fall often making it to
Bord na Móna have developed a number of products which were novel developments in their time. Today peat briquettes replace sods of raw peat as a domestic fuel. A briquette (or briquet) is a block of flammable Matter which is used as Fuel to start and maintain a Fire. These briquettes consist of shredded peat, compressed to form a virtually smokeless (once lit), slow-burning, easily stored and transported fuel. Combustion or burning is a complex sequence of Exothermic chemical reactions between a Fuel and an Oxidant accompanied by the production of Another product developed was peat moss, a combination of peat and soil for use in the garden - particularly in pot plants. Sphagnum is a Genus of between 151-350 species of Mosses commonly called peat moss, due to its prevalence in Peat bogs Soil, often typeset as SOiL, is a four piece rock band from Chicago Illinois United States founded by Shaun Glass Tom Schofield Tim King and Adam Zadel A garden is a planned space usually outdoors set aside for the display cultivation and enjoyment of Plants and other forms of Nature. The company also supplies peat to power stations of the Electricity Supply Board. A power station (also referred to as generating station, power plant or powerhouse) is an industrial facility for the generation of The Electricity Supply Board (ESB (Bord Soláthair an Leictreachais (sometimes called ESB Ireland to differentiate it from US utilities is a semi-state electricity
Railways
An extensive network of narrow gauge railways is operated by the company in the midlands. A narrow gauge railway (or narrow gauge railroad) is a Railway that has a Track gauge narrower than the of Standard gauge railways It is often taken up and relaid as various plots are harvested or left aside. Some smaller sections of railway are used in other bog locations, for example in County Donegal. "Railroad" and "Railway" both redirect here For other uses see Railroad (disambiguation. County Donegal (ˌdʌnəˈgɔːl Irish: Contae Dhún na nGall. Bord na Móna has an extensive 2000 km (1200 mile) network, which has carried up to 5 million tonnes annually, and is larger than the main network (passenger and freight) operated by Iarnród Éireann. The kilometre ( American spelling: kilometer) symbol km is a unit of Length in the Metric system, equal to one thousand A mile is a unit of Length, usually used to measure Distance, in a number of different systems including Imperial units United States Rail services in Ireland are provided by Iarnród Éireann in the Republic of Ireland and by Northern Ireland Railways in Northern Ireland rail transport in Ireland Iarnród Éireann ( IÉ;; in English, Irish Rail) is the national Railway system operator of the Republic Bord na Móna has one of the largest industrial railways in Europe.
Part of the old railway in Clonmacnoise, County Offaly is now the Clonmacnoise and West Offaly Railway (colloquially the "Bog Train") having been set up to give the public a tour around part of the bog. The Monastery of Clonmacnoise ( Cluain Mhic Nóis in Irish, meaning "Meadow of the Sons of Nós" is situated in County Offaly, The Clonmacnoise and West Offaly Railway is a Narrow gauge railway in Ireland. One line of the railway system runs along a section of the former Ballinasloe branch canal. Ballinasloe ( is a town in the eastern extremity of County Galway in Ireland. Canals are artificial channels for water There are two types of canals water conveyance canals which are used for the conveyance and delivery of water and Waterways This includes a section where the railway runs through Kylemore Lough.
Land reclamation
The company is responsible, under government action, for reclaiming spent bogland. These areas of land are usually cleared up, with trees or other suitable vegetation being introduced. A tree is a perennial Woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or Vegetation is a general term for the plant life of a region it refers to the Ground cover provided by plants Reclaimed bogland is then usually used as a wildlife preserve. nature reserve ( natural reserve, nature preserve, natural preserve) is a Protected area of importance for Wildlife, flora Much of the bogs of Ireland have been depleted, it is likely that most peat-fired electricity stations will be closed within 25 years. A year (from Old English gēr) is the time between two recurrences of an event related to the Orbit of the Earth around the Sun Rhode Power Station near Edenderry, had its cooling towers demolished on 16 March 2004 as it was no longer viable, followed by Bellacorick in north County Mayo on 14 October 2007. Rhode ( Ród in Irish) is a village in County Offaly in Ireland. Edenderry ( is a town in the north of County Offaly, Ireland. Cooling towers are heat removal devices used to transfer process waste heat to the Atmosphere. March 2004: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September October 2007 is the tenth month of that year It began on a Monday and 31 days later ended on a Wednesday.
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