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sea; it forms the watershed, and drains eastwards into the river 
Blackwater, and west into the Ownacree. ‘To the north-east the 
bog descends in a gentle slope towards the Tooreencahill stream, 
a branch of the Blackwater; to the north-west towards the main 
branch of the Ownacree, and westwards towards the Carraundul- 
keen streamlet, into which it burst. Judging from the size of the 
valley in which this branch flows, it would appear that the greater 
part of the bog drained into the last-mentioned stream. At the 
inquest evidence was given that a “ wet vein’ existed in the bog 
continuing the direction of this stream. It is of interest to observe 
that the bog rests partly on Coal-measures, and partly on Carboni- 
ferous limestone, which is brought up by an anticlinal, and 
separated from the Coal-measures by a fault, which runs for some 
miles east and west, through the very middle of that part of the 
bog which lies adjacent to the outburst. 
The bog, like most others, possessed a convex surface; it 
extended in three arms, which sloped downwards in the three 
directions of drainage already specified. In all other directions it 
is bounded by gently rising cultivated land. It was not drained 
by any superficial streams, nor was any large amount of water 
discharged at any point from beneath. ‘The “‘ wet vein”’ already 
mentioned was evidently a line of drainage. 
The peasantry state that the surtace of the bog was excep— 
tionally soft; they admit, however, they could walk across it in 
the middle of winter. According to the evidence of Cornelius 
Sullivan (Freeman, December 31st), the place was ‘‘shaky in 
patches, and persons crossing the bog could avoid these.”’ The 
flora of the bog shows that it was no wetter than bogs usually are. 
The plants which form its surface are members of the normal bog- 
flora. The vegetation consists of a tangle of Calluna Erica (Ling), 
Evica Tetralix (Cross-leaved Heath), Narthecium Ossifragum (Bog 
Asphodel), Scirpus cespitosus (Club-rush), and Molnia varia (Purple 
Melic grass), with the usual abundant undergrowth of bog-mosses, 
of which Sphagnum rubellum is the prevailing species, while S. 
cuspidatum, var. plumosum, fills the numerous shallow pools, which, 
as usual, were scattered over the surface. ‘Tufts of the moss 
Racomitrium lanuginosum were frequent, and the lichen Cladonia 
rangiferina (Ikeindeer moss) was abundant, mixed with the hepatic 
