Lough Graney
Lough Graney (Irish: Loch Gréine)[1] is a lake in County Clare, Ireland.[2] 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.[3][4]
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  Lough Graney | |
| Location | County Clare, Ireland |
| Coordinates | 52.983121°N 8.663227°W |
| Native name | Loch Gréine (Irish) |
| Primary outflows | River Graney |
| Catchment area | River Shannon |
| Basin countries | Ireland |
| Surface area | 3.7 km2 (1.4 sq mi) |
| Surface elevation | 49 m (161 ft) |
| Islands | Green Island, Sand Island |
Recreation
Lough Graney is a site for fishing perch, ferox trout, roach and bream.[5]
In popular culture
- The Lough has a place in the history of Irish literature. This is because, 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 now stands overlooking the site.[6]
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.
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