MYSTIC LAKE
DISAPPEARANCE IN IRELAND
Lougli Na Suil, at Geevagh, County Sligo, from which the waters suddenly disappeared, began to fill up again a month later, savs tlm DoiUr Telegraph. Tourists had been walking out on the dry bed of the lake one day. In. the evening there ivias a noise which, according to one witness, '“squnded like a small volcano.” It came from a spring well on the lake shore, -from which burst huge quantities of earth and water.
A man walking on the lake bed had just time to run for the shore when the' place became flooded end a lake of some thousands of yard s circumference formed in a few minutes. Lougli Na Suil, which was 45 acres in extent and 30ft. deep, vanished with its 52,000,000 cubic feet of "water in . a few hours. One night it was full, hut the next day it was empty, and heaps of dead fish lay stranded on the mud flats. According to local tradition the lake disappears for a few days every 100 years.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1933, Page 6
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176MYSTIC LAKE Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1933, Page 6
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