| County Galway |
| Loch Corrib |
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Loch Corrib - Map of Loch Corrib
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Loch Corrib, which is the second largest sheet of inland frest water in
Ireland, is about thirty-five miles in length from Galway to Mám and
varies in breadth from eight miles, as between Oughterard and Cong, to
one quater of a mile, as from the Wood of Dún to Corrán Point, where it
narrows between the Joyce Country and the Iar-Chonnacht hills. Its
general direction is from west-north-west, in a curvature, to
south-south-east. In depth it varies considerable. It is in |
many parts
full of rocky shoals, dry in summer; and, even in the navigation
course, having but six or seven feet of water in some places. In other
parts it descends to one hundred and fifty-two feet, as between the
island of Inis mhic a' trír and Cong, and between Dubhros Island and
Fornocht Point, which portions are styled by the fishermen "The Old
Loch." The accompanying map, to a scale of half an inch to the statute
mile, taken from the Admiralty Chart made in 1846, and the Ordnance
Survey Maps, shows the principal islands, the navigation course, the
rivers, and the chief objects of interest along its shores. |
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