Identifier: picturesqueirela00sava (find matches)
Title: Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Savage, John, 1828-1888, ed
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Publisher: New York, T. Kelly
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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se of the former. The source or spring is of acircular form, about 50 feet in diameter, called the Shannon Pot, or more gen-erally, Leigmonshena. The water boils up in the centre, and yields a continuedstream about eight feet wide and two feet deep in the driest season, Avhich runsfour miles an hour. In rainy weather it overflows its banks and all low groundsin the vicinity. There are many caverns and clefts on the top and sides of Cuil-cagh which receive the rain ; and, as no streams descend, the drainage of themountain and its subterranean springs combined form an outlet here, and givebirth to the Shannon. Two miles from its source it receives the Owenmore, andseven miles farther on, having gathered its tributaries and swelled to a con-siderable river of fifty to sixty yards wide, with a varying depth of from five toten feet, it enters Lough Allen in force. Its onward course has been indicated in the article on Leitrim, of which, after leaving Lough Allen, it becomes a boundary. 520
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CopjTigUt, 1882, by Tliuujas Kellj-, New York.

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