School: Cluain Tuaiscirt (roll number 1405)
- Location:
- Clontuskert, Co. Galway
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- Rivers 20-7-1938Let us briefly recall what, no doubt many of you already know, in this way in which a river is formed. The rain falling on the uplands runs, in part, down the slopes to join an existing brook, or sinks, in part, into the ground until it is stopped, by some layer, such as hard rock or clay, which it cannot penetrate. Here it gathers in a pol until pressure forces it to seek an outlet, and it issues from the hillside in a trickling stream which is often the source of a river.
- Collector
- Thomas Murray
- Gender
- Male
