The Bog of Allen, from the Canal Side, 1850. 'The Irish Amelioration Society - Manufacture of Peat of the Carbara Castle in the the left, and the Wicklow Hills on the Rogers obtained a Royal charter for the conversion of peat fuel into charcoal for sanitary and other purposes, as also for the reclamation of the peat at once commenced operations at Derrymullen [in Kildare, Ireland] where no sooner was a station erected, than it was besieged by the then miserable and half-starved spectres who inhabited this dreary waste -
The Bog of Allen, from the Canal Side, 1850. 'The Irish Amelioration Society - Manufacture of Peat of the Carbara Castle in the the left, and the Wicklow Hills on the Rogers obtained a Royal charter for the conversion of peat fuel into charcoal for sanitary and other purposes, as also for the reclamation of the peat at once commenced operations at Derrymullen [in Kildare, Ireland] where no sooner was a station erected, than it was besieged by the then miserable and half-starved spectres who inhabited this dreary waste - thereby proving, that where employment is to be had, the able and willing to better spot could have been its lying on the brink of the Grand Canal, with a great facility of conveying the a ready market.' From "Illustrated London News", 1850.
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