X42 The Irish Naiu7'alid, [June, 



to which, and about 300 yards below it, runs the Kingwilliams- 

 town road. A small stream, coming from the bog, passes 

 under this road. Close by this stream, on the lower side of 

 the road, was situated the house of Cornelius Donelly, Lord 

 Kenmare's quarry steward ; it was of the ordinary type, of one 

 storey, with walls of rubble masonry and a thatched roof ; it 

 stood about 12 feet below the level of the road, and at a short 

 distance from it, the intervening space being occupied by a 

 garden. The house was entirely swept away; Cornelius 

 Donelly, his wife, and family of six children all perished ; the 

 bodies of some of them, and those of their live-stock, together 

 with articles of furniture, were carried down the valley, and 

 were found at various points along the course of the flood, a 

 portion of one of the beds being picked up, a few days later, 

 in the Lake of Killarney — fourteen miles away. From the 

 fact that the whole family perished, and that those bodies 

 which were recovered were without clothing, it would appear 

 that the rapidity with which the flood rose was so great as to 

 afibrd them no chance of escape. 



After bursting from the face of the turf-cutting already 

 mentioned, the first obstacle the flood encountered was the 

 road leading to Kingwilliamstown ; it overwhelmed this for 

 a width of a quarter of a mile, and continued its course to 

 the road to Killarney, a short distance below, pouring, as it 

 passed, a small cataract of mud into the old quarry at the 

 cross-roads. The Carraundalkeen, a small streamlet, tributary 

 to the Ownacree, passes under the Killarney road, through a 

 culvert about 8 feet by 5 feet ; this was speedily blocked with 

 masses of turf, and the rising flood poured across the road, 

 carrying away the tall hedges on both sides that stood in its 

 course on its eastern side. On both this and the Kingwilliams- 

 town road huge masses of the more coherent upper crust of 

 the bog were left stranded. A short distance further down, 

 on the northern side of the Carraundulkeen valley, is situated 

 a valuable limestone quarry, which the flood filled to a depth 

 of 15 or 20 feet; as it impinged on the lower corner of the 

 entrance, it surged up in a great wave 3 or 4 feet above the 

 highest level within the quarry, which is marked as a 

 horizontal line along the quarry walls. Beyond the quarry it 

 continued down the valley for a straight run of three-quarters 

 of a mile, to enter, almost at right angles, the valley of the 



