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List of loughs of Ireland

List of loughs of Ireland

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This is an alphabetical list of loughs (lakes) on the island of Ireland. It also shows a table of the largest loughs. The word lough is pronounced like loch (/lɒk, lɒx/) and comes from the Irish loch, meaning lake.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, there are an estimated 12,000 lakes in the Republic of Ireland, covering an area of more than 1,200 square kilometres.[1] The largest lough, by area, in Ireland is Lough Neagh. Lough Corrib is the second largest, and is the largest in the Republic. The largest lough, by water volume, is Lough Neagh, with Lough Mask being the largest in the Republic.

The list below contains only those loughs that are of geographic, geological, or historical importance and almost all of them are over a square kilometre in area. It includes loughs that are in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Those partly or wholly within Northern Ireland are marked with an asterisk (*).

Largest Irish lakes

The largest freshwater loughs in Ireland are:[2][3][4]

More information Rank (by area), Lake ...

Muckross Lake (the middle lake of the Killarney lakes) is the deepest Irish lake, with a maximum depth of 75 metres.[19]

(Volume = Area * Mean Depth)

Freshwater lakes

Lough Bunny in The Burren
Fishing boats on Inchiquin, Lough Corrib.
Lough Cullin, County Mayo under Nephin
Lough Dan
Donegal's Lough Derg and Station Island
Lough Derravaragh and Knockeyon
Derryclare Lough
Mayo's Doo Lough and Delphi Pass
Glanmore Lake
Glenbeg Lough
Glencar Lough and Benbulbin
Lough Gur
Lough Inagh and the Twelve Bens
Lough Key and Castle Island
Kylemore Lough and Diamond Hill
Lough Lene and Turgesius Island
Lower Lough MacNean and Inishee Island
Maumeen Lough and the Twelve Bens
Lough Tay and the Wicklow Mountains
Lough Veagh in the Glenveagh Valley
Lough Oughter at Killykeen

Lakes with the county/counties where they are situated and their area in square kilometres. Most of the Republic of Ireland lake areas are taken from the Environmental Protection Agency's A Reference based Typology and Ecological Assessment System for Irish Lakes (pp. 10–13)[20]

More information Lake, County ...

Brackish loughs

An example of a brackish lagoon is Lady's Island Lake, County Wexford

Turloughs

Main article: Turlough (lake)

Reservoirs

Sea loughs

Fjords

See also

References

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  1. [1]
    EPA Water Quality in Ireland 2010–2015, Section 3.1, page 27. Environmental Protection Agency, 2017. ISBN 978-1-84095-735-8.
  2. [2]
    Ordnance Survey Ireland: Mountains, Rivers and Lakes
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    Fishing in Ireland, Lough Derg
  4. [4]
    UK Environmental Change Network, Lough Erne
  5. [5]
    Ordnance Survey Ireland Generalised Rivers & Lakes dataset (attribute table)
  6. [6]
    Lagarosiphon major – An Aggressive Invasive Species in Lough Corrib
  7. [7]
    World Lake Database Archived 2015-06-21 at the Wayback Machine
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    Heavily Modified Water Bodies – North Western River Basin District P.31 "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 October 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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    World Lake Database Archived 2015-06-21 at the Wayback Machine
  10. [10]
    Mayo County Council P.8
  11. [11]
    Mayo County Council P.12
  12. [12]
    “The trophic status of Lough Conn” P.7 by Mayo County Council
  13. [13]
    EPA P158
  14. [14]
    Heavily Modified Water Bodies – North Western River Basin District P.29 "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 October 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  15. [15]
    EPA P159
  16. [16]
    North South Shared Aquatic Resource (NS Share) P.15[permanent dead link]
  17. [17]
    North South Shared Aquatic Resource (NS Share) P.16[permanent dead link]
  18. [18]
    Sampling fish for the Water Framework Directive P.3
  19. [19]
    Glen Fia: Lakes of Killarney
  20. [20]
    "A Reference Based Typology and Ecological Assessment System for Irish Lakes" (PDF). Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland). 2006. pp. 10–13. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
  21. [21]
    Northern Ireland Environment Agency
  22. [22]
    Inland Fisheries of Ireland: Sampling Fish (Page 2)
  23. [23]
    Inland Fisheries of Ireland: Sampling Fish (Page 2)
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