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its Surface, rowling on with great pushing Violence, till it covered 
the Meadow, and is held to remain upon it 16 Feet. 
“Tn the Motion of this Earth, it drew after it the Body of the 
Bog, part of it lying on the Place where the Pasture-Land that 
moved out of its Place it had before stood ; leaving great Breaches 
behind it, and spewings of Water that cast up noisom Vapours : 
_ And so it continues at present, to the great Wonderment of those 
that pass by, or come many Miles to be Hye-witnesses of so 
strange a thing.” 
This communication was accompanied by a map and detailed 
description by John Honohane.* 
a.p. 1708, Castlegarde Bog, County Limerick.—The Castlegarde 
bog, or as it was then called Poulevard, moved along a valley and 
buried three houses containing about twenty-one persons. It was 
a mile long, a quarter mile broad, and about 20 feet deep in some 
parts. It ran for several miles, crossed the high road at Doon, 
broke through several bridges, and poured into the Lough of 
Coolpish.” 
A.D. 1745, March 28.—Bog of Addergoole, Dunmore, County 
Galway.—About mid-day, after a heavy thunder-shower, about 
10 acres of bog, the front of which was being cut for turf, moved 
forward and down the course of a stream, and subsided upon a low 
pasture of 30 acres by the river side, where it spread and settled, 
eovering the whole. The stream, thus dammed back, rose till it 
formed a lake of 300 acres, which, by the cutting of a channel, was 
subsequently reduced to 50 or 60 acres. This area, together with 
the 30 acres of meadow over which the bog spread has been 
destroyed for purposes of husbandry.’ 
A.D. 1788, March 27.—Bog near Dundrum, County Tipperary.— 
“A large bog of 1500 acres, lying between Dundrum and Cashel, 
in the county of Tipperary, began to be agitated in an extraor- 
_ dinary manner, and to the astonishment of and terror of neighbour- 
* Philosophical Transactions, vol. xix., pp. 714-716, October, 1697; and Boate, 
Molyneux, and others, a Natural History of Ireland, p. 113, 1755. 
2 Dublin Evening Telegraph, 2nd January, 1897, 
3Ouseley, Trans. R.I.A., vol. ii., Science, pp. 3-5, plate I., 1788. 
