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Altahullion is the largest wind farm in Ireland. It consists of 20 "Bonus 1.3MW" turbines each with a capacity to generate 1.3 Mega-watts. The full specification of these turbines is available as a PDF file Each turbine has three 30m blades and is mounted on a tower 60m tall. Between them they generate enough electricity for 20,000 homes. The panorama opens with a human figure to the left of the base of one of the towers. Click on the (-) button or use the Control key to zoom back and get an impression of the size of these windmills. Altahullion Mountain has traditionally been used as a source of energy. It is blanketed in peat bog. In the past the energy was collected in the form of peat turf, cut from the hill-top, left to dry for most of the summer, then taken home to be burnt on open fires through-out the winter. The segment of the panorama when looking into the sun, shows a turf-bank in the foreground with turf stacked along it. Behind the scene : how this panorama was made
There is another VR of Altahullion that was taken on the same day. The Very Ireland website carries many other VRs by George Row 
Shortcut to this page: http://worldwidepanorama.org/wwp_rss/go/n1475
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