The town endured a sporadic siege from the bog lands until August 1689, when an English supply ship broke through a barricade across the Foyle.
12.
This Rill or Rivulet is really a small stream that rises in bog land approximately five miles ( eight kilometres ) southeast of the village of Bushmills in County Antrim.
13.
But there is ample proof that the illuminated gas called will-o'- the-wisp still appears in the country's marsh and peat bog lands; the sight is often associated with spirits called the little people, or leprechauns.
14.
In the Republic of Ireland a state owned agency, Bord na M�na, owns large areas of bog land and harvests peat for electricity generation but that peat is mainly from the raised bogs in the central plains.
15.
The suit claims smaller growers will be forced out of business because of the current price weakness, and that larger growers will eventually benefit when prices return to normal and cranberry-growing bog land becomes available at bankruptcy prices.
16.
Further, as a servitor, there was assigned to him another estate of two thousand acres ( 8 km?) in the precinct of Dungannon, County Tyrone, lying along the upper course of the Blackwater, and represented as abounding in woods and bog land.
