The Clare Slob Land Reclamation Act 1873
WHEREAS the waste lands, mud-banks, or slobs alongside the river Fergus, herein-after described and referred to as the slobs or slob land in the county of Clare, are either under water or subject to be covered by the tidal waters, and in their present state incapable of cultivation, and are now unproductive:

And whereas the reclamation of such slob land and the bringing of the same into cultivation, and the construction for that purpose of the embankments and works by this Act authorised wil...