Postcard, b/w landscape format, matt. Shannon scheme series, title on reverse. View of excavation of tail race, with excavator and two boring machines in bottom of rock-cut channel. Reverse printed in black; left of centre "Shannon Power Scheme/ Siemens Schuckert A-G/ Siemens Bauunion G. n. b. H./ Berlin/ Tail Race. Boring with Drop Hammer/ Boring Machine and rock excavation with/ shovel extractor/ T.C. Carroll & Sons, Stationers, Limerick", central dividing line with "1338" reading up at centre; right of centre "Post-Card" with 4 address lines below; box for stamp at top right with "Printed/ in/ Germany/ V 3926 28" inside. The card has been stuck into an album and traces of the black paper remain on reverse. Front is a little grubby.