Lough Gill (Irish: Loch Gile, meaning 'bright or white lake') is a freshwater lough (lake) mainly situated in County Sligo, but partly in County Leitrim...
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Lough Gill (/lɒk ɡɪl/; Irish: Loch Gile, meaning 'bright lake') is a freshwater lake in the southwest of Ireland. It is located on the Dingle Peninsula...
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an alphabetical list of loughs (lakes) on the island of Ireland. It also shows a table of the largest loughs. The word lough is pronounced like loch (/lɒk...
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The Lough Gill Quartette was an Irish Traditional Music Quartet formed in Dublin, Ireland in the 1930s. The quartet was named after the famous Sligo lake...
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the common name had become the Garavogue, at least for the river from Lough Gill to below the bridge in the town of Sligo. The source of the name Garavogue...
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Irish passports. Lake Isle of Innisfree is an uninhabited island within Lough Gill, in Ireland, near which Yeats spent his summers as a child. Yeats describes...
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Keelogyboy, Leean and Benbo) is visible on approaches to the village, as is Lough Gill below the Slieve Daeáne and Killerry mountain. The village itself is also...
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located on low gravel hills on the banks of the Garavogue River between Lough Gill and the estuary of the Garavogue river leading to Sligo Bay. The town...
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Lough Neagh (/lɒx ˈneɪ/ lokh NAY) is a freshwater lake in Northern Ireland and is the largest lake on the island of Ireland and in the United Kingdom...
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Sligo and the county's landscapes (particularly the Isle of Innisfree, in Lough Gill) were the inspiration for much of his poetry. Yeats said, "the place that...
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