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place, the heath was forced up by 

 the roots on the waste lands and 

 elevations, and carried by torrents 

 in different directions. The thun- 

 der was heaA^, accompanied by 

 gusts of wind, and partial spouts 

 of rain, as though poured from 

 solid masses of water. At Nor- 

 ton, the thunder was the heaviest 

 and most alarming ever known. 

 At Longdon, the deluge had all 

 the appearance of a water-spout, 

 which cut up the roads and moved 

 masses of earth in heaps ; and at 

 a recently built house, where a 

 new turf had been laid, the whole 

 site of a grass plat was laid bare 

 as before the work was begun : 

 and the most frightful vestiges of 

 its effects are traced through the 

 whole neighbourhood. On Tues- 

 day afternoon, about six o'clock, 

 the whole hemisphere, as viewed 

 from an elevation near Lichfield, 

 presented one unbroken curtain 

 of cloud and rain, but without 

 being accompanied with remark- 

 able darkness. A cori'espondent 

 says, that previous to this gene- 

 ral aspect of rain, he nevei- saw 

 the clouds so low. A servant of 

 John Atkinson, Esq. of Maple 

 Hays, near Lichfield, was killed 

 by the lightning on Thursday 

 evening at Lemonsley. The thun- 

 der was tremendously heavy, and 

 the lightning extremely vivid. 



On Sunday 21st a riot took 

 place at Ballyvourney, to the west 

 of Macroom, between two parties, 

 the Lynches and Twomeys, living 

 in that neighbourhood, who, it 

 appears, have been for several 

 years hostile and unfriendly to 

 each other ; in consequence of 

 which Sir Is^icholas Colthurst di- 

 rected his under agent to desire 

 that they should not go to the 



same chapel on Sundays — that 

 the Twomeys should attend the 

 Western chapel, and the Lynches 

 the Ballynkeeny chapel : the 

 Lynches, notwithstanding, re- 

 fused to go to the chapel appoint- 

 ed for them ; the Twomeys, how- 

 ever, went away from the chapel ; 

 the Lynches said, they would go 

 too, left it, and proceeded to- 

 wards home. The Lynches party, 

 which consisted of about 100, or 

 upwards, armed with guns, 

 swords, scythes, pistols, and 

 various kinds of weapons, re- 

 mained about an hour and a half 

 wiiile mass was saying, and kept 

 shouting out for the Twomeys : 

 as soon as they saw them going 

 away from the chapel, they follow- 

 ed, and surrftunded them about a 

 qtuirter of a mile from it, attack- 

 ed them, and, in the com'se of the 

 conflict, a man of the name of 

 John Hagarty, of the Twomys 

 party, received a cut of a scythe on 

 the right side of tlie neck, under 

 the jaw, which nearly severed his 

 head from his body, besides seve- 

 ral other wounds, which instantly 

 caused his death. A man of the 

 name of Cornelius Casey also 

 received a blow on the head from 

 a stick, which knocked him down, 

 and had four of his fingers cut 

 off, besides receiving several other 

 wounds, from which he lies in a 

 very dangerous state. An inquest 

 was held on the body of the man 

 who had been killed ; and the 

 jury found a verdict that the de- 

 ceased, John Hagarty, came by 

 his death in consequence of a 

 blow received with a scythe on 

 the right side of the neck luider 

 the ear and jaw, of which he in- 

 stantly died. — Cork paper. 



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