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"lough"lough 1. lake, used both on its own, and as part of a place-name, e.g. Lough Neagh, Lough Derg. 2. long arm of the sea, e.g. Lough Swilly, Belfast Lough. In Scotland the spelling loch is used (identical to the Irish and Scottish Gaelic forms). Despite appearances, it is not related to turlough. [1387<loch] "Lough Derg [Co. Donegal] is a large, shallow lough
of over 2,000 acres, four miles north of Pettigo. This is the lough with
the famous island known as St. Patrick's Purgatory,
with its basilica and penitential exercises, where pilgrims flock every
year from June to August. What is less well known is that it holds a stock
of nice trout averaging just under a pound and some much better ones too -
trout to 4lb have been reported. The fish are pink fleshed and their diet
consists mainly of Gammarus - freshwater shrimp. Other forms of
fish food and fly life are relatively scarce and consequently the trout are
slow to come to the fly. Lough Derg fishes best in May. It is worth
sounding a note of wwarning: this lough can blow up very rough and it has
many rocky shoals just under the surface." "In prehistoric times Moygashel was situated at the eastern periphery of a
lake village called Eskragh Lough. This water body has provided a power
supply for the mills from the late 18th century. During the drought of
1953 employees of the Stevensons Mill found two dug-out canoes on the bed
of the lough, one of which was 7.3m long and 1m wide. Archaeologists have
estimated that these were built somewhere between 500 BC and AD 200 at the
end of the Bronze Age or during the early Iron Age." |