Was it an accumulation of methane? Don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Heaphy" <tipwex@eircom.net> To: <IRL-TIPPERARY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 9:49 AM Subject: [TIP] Times Newspaper 30-4-1788 > Ireland. 30-4-1788 > The eruption in the bog, near Golden, in the County Tipperary, still > continues, in such a considerable manner, as to blacken the River Suir, > from Golden, down to the sea. We hear the Royal Irish Academy have deputed > one of their members to view and describe this extraordinary phenomenon. > Mary > > ==== IRL-TIPPERARY Mailing List ==== > IGP County Tipperary Message Board: > http://pub14.bravenet.com/forum/show.php?usernum=1200795777 > >
Swamps are an age old accumulation of water and vegetation which generates methane. If a pocket of methane wells up and explodes, it's like a small atomic bomb. Don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Kelly" <ocollaugh@comcast.net> To: <IRL-TIPPERARY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 11:36 AM Subject: Re: [TIP] Times Newspaper 30-4-1788 > Was it an accumulation of methane? > > Don > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mary Heaphy" <tipwex@eircom.net> > To: <IRL-TIPPERARY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 9:49 AM > Subject: [TIP] Times Newspaper 30-4-1788 > > >> Ireland. 30-4-1788 >> The eruption in the bog, near Golden, in the County Tipperary, still >> continues, in such a considerable manner, as to blacken the River Suir, >> from Golden, down to the sea. We hear the Royal Irish Academy have >> deputed one of their members to view and describe this extraordinary >> phenomenon. >> Mary >> >> ==== IRL-TIPPERARY Mailing List ==== >> IGP County Tipperary Message Board: >> http://pub14.bravenet.com/forum/show.php?usernum=1200795777 >> >> > > > ==== IRL-TIPPERARY Mailing List ==== > To Unsubscribe: Send email to IRL-TIPPERARY-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com > Put ONLY the word unsubscribe in the message. > For digest the address is IRL-TIPPERARY-D-REQUEST@rootsweb.com > [If you take the LIST you can't unsub from the DIGEST & vice versa] > >