Floods in Dublin
2 Jan 1784Dublin, 2ud January, 1784.
The ssudden melting of the snow yesterday, together with the incessant rain, occasioned such floods in and about this city as were attended’ with much damage. Tho rivers Liffey and Dodder overflowed all the low ground contiguous to them, and tho Toddle watercourse, as usual, covered Patrick’s Street, the Close,in the first of which places seven cows were drowned in a dairy. It is to be lamented that some expedient is not devised by an overfall, or tho enlargement of the great sewer, to obviate the frequent inundating of that watercourse To the above account we are sorry to add that a coach containing two ladies and two gentlemen was overset in the inundation near the Poddle, and tho four drowned. Their bodies were taken! up at four o’clock this morning. The coachman and horses escaped