A River Runs Under It

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Iveagh Garden Hotel

Andrea Smith, in The Lonely Planet, writes:

Dublin’s newest accommodation offering, Iveagh Garden Hotel, will source its energy from an underground river that runs 50 metres below the hotel.

This makes it the first hotel in Europe to develop a unique low energy system that creates the lowest carbon footprint possible. The four-star hotel in the Irish capital opened this week on Harcourt Street, a renowned Georgian street.

A new Dublin hotel is fully powered by an underground river (Andrea Smith, The Lonely Planet)

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14 thoughts on “A River Runs Under It

  1. Col

    Never mind, the article says it the river Swan (never heard of it). I presume that’s where the pub got it’s name. Any history buffs out there?

    1. Papi

      In A star called Henry there’s a whole bit about his Da using the hidden Dublin rivers to escape. Naturally I don’t have a copy on me.

    2. Donk

      Rathmines and ranelagh are built on it. Bessborough parade off mountpleasant ave is built directly over it and the houses are arched in same shape of river.

  2. Cian

    I’m sceptical that the swan river can produce enough electricity to fully power a 152 room hotel.
    I’m also sceptical that the rived is 50m below the hotel. Harcourt street isn’t 50m above sea level.

  3. petey

    this is a very good thing in itself, and interesting for dublin history types like me.
    however, it won’t give the workers there control over their own work lives.
    capital recuperates everything.

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