Lough Graney
Lough Graney (Irish: Loch Gréine) is a lake in County Clare, Ireland. The lake's outlet is the short River Graney, which flows through Lough O'Grady and past the town of Scarriff into the west side of Lough Derg.
Recreation
Lough Graney is a site for fishing perch, ferox trout, roach and bream.
In popular culture
The Lough has a place in the history of Irish literature. In 1780, local poet and hedge school master Brian Merriman set the beginning of his mock-Aisling poem Cúirt An Mheán Oíche ("The Midnight Court") along the shores of Lough Graney. A stone, which has been carved with the opening lines of the poem in Munster Irish, stands overlooking the site.
See also
References
- ^ "Loch Gréine/Lough Graney". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Government of Ireland - Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Dublin City University. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
- ^ "Cahermurphy - Recreation Sites - Coillte Outdoors".
- ^ Joyce, Patrick Weston; Bartholemew, John (1999). "Lough+Graney" Atlas & Geography of Ireland.
- ^ Kinahan, George Henry (1873). The water basin of Lough Derg, Ireland. Geological Magazine. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
- ^ "Fishing in Ireland. An angler's guide to the best fishing in Ireland".
- ^ Seamus Heaney (1995), The Redress of Poetry, Faber & Faber, p. 62.