Carrowmore Lake
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. Its catchment area includes the townland of Bellanaboy in Kilcommon where the contentious Corrib Gas refinery is situated.
Archaeology
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 Cruachan in Tulsk, County Roscommon, a tale from the Iron Age cycle of folklore.
George W. Russell ("Æ") wrote a poem about Carrowmore Lake.
References
- ^ "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.
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: 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.