1897] Praegkr. — Bog-bursts — Receyit Disaster, Co. Kerry. 155 



A.D. I824y December 22. — Bog of Ballywindelland, Coleraine. — A 

 portion of this bog containing 80 or 100 acres gave way and passed into 

 an adjoining valley : it gradually advanced on the firm land, during 

 the day, at the rate of 2 feet per minute. ' 



A.D. I83I, January. — Bog near Geruagh, Co. Sligo. — " After a sudden 

 thaw of snow, the bog between Bloomfield and Geevagh gave way ; and a 

 black deluge, carry-ing with it the contents of 100 acres of bog, took the 

 direction of a small stream, and rolled on with the violence of a torrent, 

 sweeping along heath, timber, mud, and stones, and overwhelming 

 many meadows and arable land. On passing through some boggy land, 

 the flood swept out a wide and deep ravine, and a part of the road 

 leading from Bloomfield to St. James's Well was completely carried 

 away from below the foundation for the breadth of 200 yards. "^ 



A.D. 1835, September 17. — Fairloch Moss, Randalstown, Co. Antrim, 

 (A very large bog overlooking a valley.) — All day a portion of it swelled up 

 till the convexity was 30 feet in height ; at 5 p.m., with a sound like a 

 loud, rushing wind, it sank several feet, and a collection of tufts, mud, 

 and water moved N.E., not rapidl}^, and soon stopped. It swelled up 

 again, and about midday on the 19th, it again burst with a similar noise 

 and the flow crept on till the 21st, when it ceased till the 23rd, being 

 interrupted by ditches ; on the 23rd, at 3 p.m., it suddenly rushed for- 

 ward. Continuing, it surrounded a cottage 10 feet deep, rose over the 

 Belfast-I/ondonderry coach road, crossed it with a width of 300 yards, 

 and poured over the far bank in a cascade, and 'continued down the 

 valley till it reached the River Maine, which it dammed temporarily, 

 and killed all the fish. The flow into the Maine did not cease till 

 Sept. 28. The deposited area of bog was three-quarters of a mile long, 

 and 200 to 300 yards wide, with a maximum depth of 30 feet. The place 

 where the bog had swelled up to 30 feet, afterwards sunk 20 feet below 

 its original level, and a small pool occupied the hollow.^ 



A.D. 1840, January. — Bog of Farrendoyle, Kanturk, Co. Cork. — ^Thebog 

 was 10 feet in thickness, resting on a substratum of yellow clay ; the pent- 

 up water undermined a prodigious mass of bog, and bore it buoyantly on 

 its surface ; twenty acres of valuable meadow were covered, and a cottage 

 was propelled and engulfed ; a quarter of a mile of the road from Kan- 

 turk to Williamstown was covered 12 to 30 feet deep.* 



A.D. 1870, December 14, 9 a.m.— ^^^ near Castlereagh, Co. Bos- 

 common. — The bog is situated 5 miles north-east of Castlereagh, on the 

 watershed of the River Suck and the Owen-na-foreesha, a tributary of 

 Lough Gara ; it overlies cavernous limestone. The eruption took place 

 from the face of a turf-cutting, which was from 12 to 15 feet in height. A 



"^Ibid.y p. 198. 



'Lyell, " Principles of Geology," loth ed., vol. ii., p. 504. 



' Hunter, Magazine of Nat. Hist., vol. ix., May, 1836, pp. 251-261. 



* Freemati's /ournal, January 3, 1840 (copied from the Cork Standard), 



