Location:
- Grid reference:
- ITM 627533,820345
- old style H2761520359
- 54°7'53"N; 7°34'38"W
- Townland: Gortawee, Ballyconnell, County Cavan
Clinker manufacture operational: 27/2/2000 to date
Approximate total clinker production to 2015: 20 million tonnes (24th)
Raw materials from the same quarries as used by Derrylin at 627200, 821300, Mucklagh townland, County Cavan, only 0.75 km from the plant:
- Carboniferous Limestone (Dartry Limestone Formation: 338-345 Ma)
- shale (Meenymore Formation: 329-336 Ma)
Ownership: Quinn Group. Quinn Group was reconstituted as the Aventas Group in November 2013, and was acquired by Quinn Industrial Holdings Ltd in December 2014, re-named Mannok in 2020.
Also called Scotchtown works. Supplementing Derrylin, it was built just south of the border on the opposite side of the quarry, and only 1.3 km from the older plant. The Ballyconnell and Derrylin plants are exceptionally remote . Ballyconnell was served by a railway as recently as 1959, but now the only way out of the area is through minor country roads.
Please contact me with any relevant information or corrections. I am particularly interested in firmer dates and statistics.
Note: technical information on currently operational plants is ✄withheld in the public version of the site at present.
Power Supply
The plant is electrically powered using grid supply, supplemented by own wind-farm.
Rawmills
2900 kW FLS ATOX 45 vertical roller mill heated by kiln exhaust gas(1)
One rotary kiln was installed:
Kiln A1
Supplier: FLS
Operated: 27/2/2000 to date
Process: 5-stage suspension preheater with air-separate precalciner(1)
Location:
- hot end: ITM 627528,820319 {old style 227610,320333}
- cold end: ITM 627539,820372 {old style 227621,320386}: the kiln is unenclosed.
Dimensions: Metric 54.00×4.550(1)
Rotation (viewed from firing end): anti-clockwise
Slope: 3.5% (2.006°)
Speed: ?
Drive: hydraulic drive via cold end roller(1)
Kiln profile: ✄: two tyres
Cooler: FLS Coolax CFG direct-aerated grate(1)
Fuel: coal, supplemented by solid refuse from 2014.
Coal mill: indirect: 335 kW FLS ATOX 20.0 vertical roller mill(1)
Exhaust: via rawmill and electrostatic precipitator to stack(1).
Typical Output: ✄
Typical Heat Consumption: ✄
References:
- (1) IEEE 2003
Sources::
- Primary Sources:
- Quinn Cement - A Modern Cement Plant in Ireland, IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference 2003, Conference Record pp 175-181
- Mannok website
- Environmental reports
- OSI digital mapping
- GSI mapping and monographs
- Confirmatory Sources:
- Nil