Kieron wrote:Can anyone point me in the right direction?
It is known as the "Brasky" mass after the Briska Townland in Limerick in which it fell (locally Briska, pronounced as Brisky).
Kieron wrote:I think we need someone with access to 19th-century maps to help us out.
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Kieron wrote:I see there was a Briska More and a Briska Beg. The latter was to the north of the Faha desmesne, so let's assume that was the place. I have updated my map to show Briska Beg and the Faha desmesne (George Tuthill's house). Assuming my location for the Patrick's Well stone is correct, you can see that Briska/Brasky, Faha and Patrick's Well are in a straight line, as they are supposed to have been. What I don't understand now is how 'six or seven' smaller stones fell between Patrick's Well and the village of Adare, so far off to the west.
Sir, — Friday morning, the 10th of September 1813, being very calm and serene and the sky dear, about nine o'clock a cloud appeared in the east, and very soon after I heard eleven distinct reports, appearing to proceed from thence, somewhat resembling the discharge of heavy artillery. Immediately after this followed a considerable noise not unlike the beating of a large drum, which ' was succeeded by an uproar resembling the continued discharge of musquetry in line. The sky above the place whence this noise appeared to issue became darkened and very much disturbed, making a hissing noise ; and from thence appeared to issue with great violence different masses of matter, which directed their course with great velocity in a horizontal direction towards the west.
Six or seven more of the same kind of masses, but smaller, and fractured, as if shattered from each other or from larger ones, descended at the same time, with great velocity, in different places between the lands of Scagh and the village of Adare.
Kieron wrote:The location of the Patrick's Well/Scagh fall needs further work. I can't see Scagh on the OS map, and it doesn't come up as a search item in Limerick.
One of these was observed to descend ; it fell to the earth, and sunk into it more than a foot and a half,on the lands of Scagh in the neighbourhood of Pobuck's Well, in the county of Limerick.
One of these was observed to descend; it fell to the earth, and sank into it more than a foot and a half, on the lands of Scagh, in the neighbourhood of Patrick's Well, in the county of Limerick.
David Entwistle wrote:Not sure, but "lands of Scagh" may just refer to scrubland, or lands of hawthorne?...
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