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From the Edinburgh Advertiser (Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland), 14 December 1802, page 6:

DUBLIN, Dec. 6.

"By the storm and inundation on Wednesday and on Thursday, in addition to the calamities mentioned in our last, the Backs, Weirs, &c. at Old Bawn paper mills, are entirely swept away. Nearly an acre and a half of Mr. Wildridge's meadow, adjacent to the mills, has been severed from the rest by the violence of the flood, and carried completely off! Besides the bridges at Ringsend and Coal quay, formerly mentioned, the bridges of Lucan and Celbridge have also been destroyed.

"Patrick street, Plunket street, Ball-lane, &c. were inundated to a great depth, and articles of furniture were seen floating through them with the current. Boats constantly plying there during Friday, saving such as were in danger, and supplying others with provisions.

"As the different rivulets rushed into the Liffey from the mountains about Kilcullen bridge, the river rose to such an alarming degree in this place, that the country people who lived near the banks took every precaution to guard against impending danger; still, however, cattle, trees, roofs of houses, millwheels, and small boats were soon observed passing with the current; two houses beyond Celbridge were inundated and swept away; the people who dwelt in one of them, providentially quitted in an hour previous, but three brothers who lived in the house became victims to the fury of the flood!

"The Law Courts in Dublin were overflowed, and business was obliged to be adjourned. The room in which the Barristers' gowns and wigs were kept overflowed to the depth of four feet, and ever thing contained in it was destroyed. Every hour brings to our ears some new disasters occasioned by this extraordinary misfortune....


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