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2 manuscript pages, with a drawing of the landslide (Fig.1) incorporated into the text.

Ashe describes a landslide that took place in Clogher [County Tyrone, Northern Ireland] on 10-11 March 1713. Ashe describes the damage and the state of the ground where the landslide had occurred.

Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the subsiding, or sinking down of part of a hill near Clogher in Ireland. Communicated by the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Clogher, F. R. S'.

Read to the Royal Society on 16 April 1713.

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CLP/9i/66
Earliest possible date
1713
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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St George Ashe

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St George Ashe, Paper, account of a land slide at Clogher by the Bishop of Clogher [St George Ashe], 1713, CLP/9i/66, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_9i_66/paper-account-of-a-land-slide-at-clogher-by-the-bishop-of-clogher-st-george-ashe, accessed on 15 February 2025

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