The mineral springs of Donegal

The mineral springs of Donegal

Ireland--Topography--Lough Derg--Vicinity

A topographical dictionary entry for County Donegal and the Barony of Tirhugh

Samuel Lewis, d. 1865.

Lewis, Samuel, A topographical dictionary of Ireland :
comprising the several counties; cities; boroughs; corporate, market, and post towns; parishes and principal villages; with historical and statistical descriptions: embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bishoprics, corporate towns, and boroughs; and of the seals of the several municipal corporations, vol. 1, p. 608

S. Lewis and co., London

1849

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Two-volume dictionary

English

Topographical dictionary entry

DD_0547

54.653928,-8.111040

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/pst.000002678979

"Mineral Springs are very numerous : Rutty gives a list of twenty, partly chalybeate, partly sulphureous. Of the former are those of Aghalun, Coolauran, Drumcroe, Killinshanvally, Largy, and Tullyveel; of the latter, Aghnahinch, Ashwood, Derryinch, Derrylester, Killasher, Lisbleak (two springs), Meham (two springs), Owen Brewn, and Pettigo : the water of the last-named is more strongly impregnated with the mi neral than even the celebrated spring at Swanlinbar. A spring at Maguires-Bridge, and two at Drumgoon, are sulphureous, with a prevailing admixture of an alkali. Four miles north-west of Enniskillen, near Ballycassidy, are some natural caves called the Daughton : the entrance is by a large arch, 25 feet high, the roof being composed of various pieces of rock in regular order; the passage leads to a second vault of the same form, but not so high, and thence it is continued by narrow windings to a brook, which, passing through unknown recesses, discharges itself at the first entrance. At Belcou, a small distance west of Enniskillen, is a celebrated well, called Davagh Phadric, reputed the best cold bath in Ireland, and in great esteem for nervous and paralytic disorders; it discharges a large stream which turns two mills at the short distance of 150 yards."

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