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Coordinates: 54°11N 9°47W / 54.183°N 9.783°W / 54.183; -9.783
 

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Carrowmore Lake
Loch na Ceathrún Móire (Irish)
Western shore of lake
Carrowmore Lake is located in Ireland
Carrowmore Lake

Carrowmore Lake

Location in Ireland

LocationCounty Mayo, Connacht, Ireland
Coordinates54°11′N 9°47′W / 54.183°N 9.783°W / 54.183; -9.783, F836275
Basin countriesIreland
Surface elevation128 metres (420 ft)

Carrowmore Lake (Irish: Loch na Ceathrún Móire)[1] is situated in the parishes of Belmullet, Kiltane and Kilcommon Erris, County Mayo between the villages of Bangor Erris and Barnatra at the southern end of Broadhaven Bay. The freshwater lake is over 4 miles (6 km) long and almost 3 miles (5 km) wide at its widest point. Glencullen's two townlands line its eastern shore and Rathmorgan and the Knocknascollop mountains rise up along its western shores. Carrowmore is not a deep lake and it provides the drinking water for the whole of the Erris area. It is fed by the Carrowmore River and drains into the Owenmore River on its way to Blacksod Bay.[2] The lake is designated as a S.P.A. (Birds directive) in E.U. law and also as 000476 Complex S.A.C. (Special Area of Conservation).

It is an oligotrophic/mesotrophic lake with a substrate of Dalradian schists and pale quartzite. Its shorelines are dominated by blanket bog mainly but there are many houses, mainly linear in layout, along both sides of its shores.[3] Its catchment area includes the townland of BellanaboyinKilcommon where the contentious Corrib Gas refinery is situated.

Archaeology[edit]

There are many islands in the lake. Some of these are thought to have been crannogs in use as lake fortifications through from the Iron Age to as late as the 17th century. The fort of Rathmorgan on the mountain at the south west corner of the lake is the site of the Táin Bó Flidhais cattle raid on Erris from CruachaninTulsk, County Roscommon, a tale from the Iron Age cycle of folklore.[citation needed]

George W. Russell ("Æ") wrote a poem about Carrowmore Lake.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Loch na Ceathrún Móire/Carrowmore Lake". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Dublin City University. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  • ^ Book (eISB), electronic Irish Statute. "electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB)". www.irishstatutebook.ie. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  • ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 December 2007. Retrieved 8 June 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  • ^ George Russell (2013) [First published 1913]. Collected Poems of George William Russell. Read Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1447486145.

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