i897-] Prakgkr. — Bog-bursts — Recent Disaster, Co. Kerry. 153 



"This Motion began about Seven of the Clock in the Evening, 

 fluctuating in its Motion like Waves, the Pasture-Land rising very high, 

 so that it over-run the Ground beneath it, and moved upon its Surface, 

 rowling on with great pushing Violence, till it covered the Meadow, and 

 is held to remain upon it 16 Feet. 



" In the Motion of this Earth, it drew after it the Body of the Bog, 

 part of it lying on the Place where the Pasture-Land that moved out of 

 its Place it had before stood ; leaving great Breaches behind it, and 

 spewings of Water that cast up noisom Vapours : And so it continues at 

 present, to the great Wonderment of those that pass by, or come many 

 Miles to be Eye-witnesses of so strange a thing." 



This communication was accompanied by a map and 

 detailed description by John Honohane." 



A.D. 1708. Castlegarde Bog, County Limerick, — The Castlegarde bog, or as 

 it was then called Poulevard, moved along a valley and buried three 

 houses containing about twenty-one persons. It was a mile long, a 

 quarter mile broad, and about 20 feet deep in some parts. It ran for 

 several miles, crossed the high road at Doon, broke through several 

 bridges, and flowed into the Lough of Coolpish." 



AiD. I745f IVIarch 28. — Bog of Adder goole, Dimmore, County Galway — 

 About mid-day, after a heavy thunder-shower, about 10 acres of bog, the 

 front of which was being cut for turf, moved forward and down the 

 course of a stream, and subsided upon a low pasture of 30 acres by the 

 river-side, where it spread and settled, covering the whole. The streami 

 thus dammed back, rose till it formed a lake of 300 acres, which, by the 

 cutting of a channel, was subsequently reduced to 50 or 60 acres. This 

 area, together with the 30 acres of meadow over which the bog spread, 

 has been destroyed for purposes of husbandry.^ 



AiD. 1788, March 27. — Bog near Dundrum, County Tipperary. — "A 

 large bog of 1500 acres, lying between Dundrum and Cashel, in the county 

 of Tipperary, began to be agitated in an extraordinary manner, and to 

 the astonishment and terror of neighbouring inhabitants. The rumbling 

 noise from the bog gave the alarm, and on the 30th it burst, and a kind 

 of lava issued from it, which took its direction towards Ballygriifen and 

 Golden, overspreading and laying waste a vast tract of fine fertile land 

 belonging to John Hide, Esq. Everything that opposed its course was 

 buried in ruins. Four houses were totally destroyed, and the trees that 

 stood near them torn up by the roots. The discharge has been incessant 

 since the 30th, and how far it will extend cannot at present be deter- 

 mined."* 



* Philosophical Transactions, vol. xix., pp. 714-716, October, 1697 ; and 

 Boate, Molyneux, and others, a Natural History of Ireland, p. 113, 1755. 



* Dublin Evening Telegraphs and January, 1897. 



Ouseley, Tram. R.I.A.y vol. ii., Science, pp. 3-5, plate L, 8187. 



* Gentleman's Magazine, vol. Iviii., p. 355, 1788. 



