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The Travels of Joseph Woods, Architect and Botanist, in 1809 (Author: Joseph Woods)

entry 7

Dunmanway is seated among bogs at the foot of the rocky range of mountains before mentioned. At this season of the year the bogs are scenes of active industry and to judge by the peat stacks adjoining the houses, the extent of them is not more than sufficient to supply the neighbourhood with fuel. At the end of the town a chalybeate spring containing from the accounts we had of its effects some purgative salts rises in an old stone quarry56.