WATER CATCHMENT AREAS IN IRELAND 308 
elevation, comprising 370 acres of arable land, 74 acres of 
boggy land, 15 acres of plantations, and 16 acres under 
water. On the gathering ground, none of which is owned 
by the Council except the 16 acres of reservoir sites, there 
are 2 labourers’ cottages and 11 farmsteads, with 59 in- 
habitants. The water leaves the reservoirs through copper 
screens, and passes by pipes to the filter beds. No special 
measures are taken on the gathering ground against con- 
tamination. 
Fermoy: supply from a stream which enters the reser- 
voir (450 feet elevation) and filter beds at Knockananig, 
three miles S.E. of the town. Supplemental supply from 
Glashnahall River, intake at Coolinny (539 feet elevation), 
with 1000 acres of gathering ground. The Urban District 
Council own here as freehold about 30 acres of uncultivated 
ground, said to be suitable for planting trees. 
Mallow: supply from Fiddane stream at 485 feet 
elevation, in Ballinvuskig townland, about 24 miles SE. 
of the town. The catchment area consists of arable and 
pasture land, the acreage of which is unknown. The 
reservoir and adjoining land, about 14 acres, on which it 
is proposed to construct filter beds, are owned by the 
Urban District Council. “The reservoir is cleaned out 
every four years.” 
Buttevant : supply from intake at 640 feet elevation on 
Streamhill Mountain, with 5-inch delivery pipe to reservoir, 
+ mile distant from the town. Catchment area extensive, 
acreage unknown. The Mallow Rural District Council own 
only intake works and reservoir, about a acre in all. 
Tralee: gathering ground of 1340 acres in Curraheen 
and Derrymore East townlands, between 200 and 2750 
feet elevation, all mountain grazing, without habitations or 
plantations. The Council own only the sites of the intakes, 
reservoirs, and filters; and no precautions are considered 
necessary on the gathering ground except inspection after 
floods to remove dead sheep, etc. Efforts have been made 
