Loch na Ceathrún Móire
| Loch na Ceathrún Móire | ||
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| On the west bank | ||
| Geographical location | County Mayo ( Ireland ) | |
| Tributaries | Carrowmore River | |
| Drain | Owenmore River | |
| Islands | several | |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ N , 9 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Loch na Ceathrún Móire ( Anglicized Carrowmore Lake ) is a lake in County Mayo , Connacht Province in the Republic of Ireland . The lake is located between the towns of Bangor Erris and Barnatra at the southern end of Broadhaven Bay of the Irish Sea .
General
Ceathrún Móire is a freshwater lake, has a maximum diameter of around 5 km and is surrounded by mountains. The lake is not very deep, but provides drinking water for the entire Erris region on the Muirthead peninsula . The banks are surrounded by a moor belt, but there are still a not inconsiderable number of houses along the moor areas. The lake's catchment area extends to the Kilcommon region , where the important Corrib gas refinery is located, which extracts and processes natural gas offshore.
A poem by George William Russell about the lake is in the Archives of the National Library of Ireland .
archeology
Some of the islands in the lake are crannogs (artificial islands) that served as fortifications from the Iron Age to the 17th century. The mountain fort Rathmorgan ( Iorras Domhnann ) on a mountain on the southwest bank of the Ceathrún Móire is said to be the Dún Flidhais castle named in the legend Táin Bó Flidhais ("Driving Flidhais' Cattle") .
Loch na Ceathrún Móire should not be confused with the archaeologically important area of Carrowmore in County Sligo .