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Guest post: Bog Bursts at Cappanihane, Ireland, 1697 and 1727

by Dr Angela Byrne, University of Greenwich The first published account of the phenomenon known as the ‘moving bog’ – the bogslide or bog burst[1] – was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1697. It occurred in Cappanihane, a townland in Co. Limerick in the west of Ireland, just over 30km …