480 Scientific Proccedings, Royal Dublin Society. 
Pleurozia cochleariformis. The above list furnishes satisfactory 
evidence that the surface of the bog was not unusually wet; 
indeed, the plants characteristic of wet bogs, such as Andromeda 
polifolia and Schollera Oxycoccus (Cranberry), though searched for, 
were not to be found. 
The bog had been cut for turf in two places—on the north- 
eastern slope, which faces towards the Blackwater, where the 
cuttings were of no great extent; and along the western edge, 
where, as already stated, they formed an irregular line, running 
parallel to the Kingwilliamstown road. It was from the latter 
cuttings that much of the local fuel was obtained. As regards 
these, Timothy Carey gave the following evidence at the inquest :— 
“The edge of the bog was not firm; we could cut only a depth of 
four sods, and a breadth of four sods from the edge. You would 
sink in the bog if you went in further; after a while, when the 
exposed place dried, you could cut down four sods more, and then 
you came to the clay.”! “For the last few years, they could not 
cut deep in the bog; it had a habit of closing in.’” 
The cutting does not appear to have been judiciously planned, 
except at the southern end, where it extended in wedge-shaped 
gashes into the bog; but for the rest of the distance it was cut in 
an irregular line, transverse to the line of drainage. 
An evidently faithful description of the bog, as it existed in 
1811, is given by Mr. Nimmo? in his account of the bogs of 
Kerry and Cork. It appears under the heading “ No. 6 or the 
Quarries Bog”; the area of which is stated to be 2103°6 Irish, 
or 8407°5 Hnelsh acres. 
“The bog is at a high level, being about 650 to 700 feet above 
the sea, and is in this place on the summit of the county; its 
waters passing on the east to the Blackwater, and on the west to 
the Awinegrea and Flesk to the Lake of Killarney. It is mostly 
pretty firm and requires little more than surface drainage.” 
‘Under the estimate of the cost of a scheme for draining the bog, 
1 Freeman, Dec. 81. 2 Trish Times, Dec. 31. 
3 Appendix to Fourth Report of the-Commissioners appointed to inquire into the 
nature and extent of the several bogs in Ireland, and the practicability of draining and 
cultivating them: ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 28th April, 
1814, p. 84. 
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