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BOG OF ALLEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 693 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOG OF
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ALLEN  , the name given to a congeries of morasses in
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Kildare,
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King's
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County,
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Queen's County and
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Westmeath,
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Ireland . Clane
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Bog, the eastern extremity, is within 17 M. of
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Dublin, and the morasses extend westward almost to the
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Shannon . Their
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total
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area is about 238,500 acres . They do not
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form one continuous bog, the
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tract of the
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country to which the name is given being intersected by strips of dry cultivated
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land . The
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rivers Brosna,
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Barrow and
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Boyne take their rise in these morasses, and the
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Grand and Royal canals
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cross them . The Bog of
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Allen has a
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general
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elevation of 250 ft. above
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sea level, and the
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average thickness of the
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peat of which it consists is 25 ft . It rests on a subsoil of
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clay and
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marl .

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