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of four to five miles^ and is situated south-west of Kanturk and north of the 

 Blackvvater, its eastern extremity being about one mile west of the river 

 Allow. The northern boundary may be considered as ranging from the town- 

 land of Garrevasogue^ on the east, to that of Cullen, on the west, while the 

 southern boundary passes through the tovvnland of Drumshecan. The an- 

 nexed diagram will convey a general idea of the relative position of the pro- 

 perties through which this coal deposit is distributed. The general range 

 of the beds is east and west. ^ 



North. i 



Cullen. 



Duargan. 



Kill or Coal Pits. 



West. 



Clonbannin, or 

 Clumbane. 



Island of 

 Doghill. 



Coolclougb. 



Keale. 



Drumshecan. 



Dromenagh. 



Drumskelia. 

 Gurrane. 



South, 



Garrevasogue. 

 Gortine. 



Cooleen. 

 Dromagh. 



Blackwater 



Coolbeg. 

 Dysart. 



East. 



River 



On the west the townlands of Cullen, Duargan, and Kil belong to Coun- 

 sellor N. P. Leader, as also on the east those of Cooleen, Dromagh, Dysart, 

 Coolbeg, Gortine, and Garrevasogue. To Major Freeman belong Clonbannin 

 and Island of Doghill ; to Mr. John Leader, Keale ; to Mr. Broderick, Drum- 

 shecan ; to Mr. Wallis, Gurrane ; to Mr. Dennis O'Callaghan, Drumskeha ; to 

 Mr. Morrison, Dromenagh ; and to Mr. Walcot, Coolclough. 



The more valuable portion of the district appears to be that which ranges 

 from Gortine on the east, through Dromagh, into Drumskeha on the west, 

 being that in which the main, or bulk beds, as they are termed, are particu- 

 larly found. In the other collieries the culm seams are, with few exceptions 

 from twelve to eighteen inches only in thickness, and I have been informed 

 most of the parties engaged in working these small seams, have derived little 

 advantage, while others have lost by the enterprise. 



The field has been chiefly opened, in the eastern quarter, by three levels, one of which is con- 

 ducted into Coolclough, from the south to the north, about eight hundred yards in length, cutting 

 the coal at the depth of forty yards, which there consists of three seams, all dipping south, the two 

 northern at a high angle, the southern at one rather lower. The distance between the northern 

 and middle seam, is twenty-seven yards, and between the latter and the southern, sixty yards. In 

 all three the floor or seat is gritstone, and the roof shale, and the coal is commonly two to three 

 feet thick, but in some places compressed to eighteen inches, and in others enlarged to fifteen feet. 



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