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"turlough"turlough winter lake in a low-lying area on limestone, which becomes flooded in wet weather through the welling up of groundwater through cracks, fissures and swallow-holes in the underlying limestone. In spring the water table falls and the turloughs dry out leaving the flat grassy bottoms exposed for a few months. By extension, in east Galway, north Clare and south Roscommon it refers to a type of wetland unique to Ireland. [1685<turlach<tur 'dry' + -lach suffix (not turloch as if from lough 'lake')] "...the large grey gulls quietly sailed across in
noiseless course from the Suck, to rest for the night in some of the blue
flashes or closhes of water with which the country was
interspersed, or to take their evening meal at the great Turlough of
Carrowkeel." |