Lough Derg
Sign in to savelake on River Shannon, in counties Clare (south-west), Galway (north-west), and Tipperary (to the east)
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 190 inbound references to Lough Derg, and connects out to discharge, Republic of Ireland and Dublin.
The entry is geolocated on the map in waterbody.
It is catalogued under topics including Lakes of County Clare, Lakes of County Galway and Lakes of County Tipperary.
Vinony links it to 29 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Type
- Freshwater lake
- Primary inflows
- River Shannon
- Primary outflows
- River Shannon
- Basin countries
- Ireland
- Max length
- 38.6 km (24.0 mi)
- Max width
- 12.9 km (8.0 mi)
- Surface area
- 130 km (50 sq mi)
- Average depth
- 7.6 m (25 ft)
- Max depth
- 36 m (118 ft)
- Water volume
- 0.887 km (0.213 cu mi)
- Residence time
- 0.15 years
- Shore length
- 179,000 m (587,000 ft)
- Surface elevation
- 33.5 m (110 ft)
- Settlements
- Garrykennedy , Portumna , Killaloe & Ballina , Dromineer , Terryglass
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lake
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Area
- 118
- Elevation
- 0
- Image
- Lough Derg, Ballycuggaran, Co Clare - geograph.org.uk - 1772010.jpg
- Perimeter
- 179
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- Commons category
- Lough Derg (Munster)
- outflows
- River Shannon
- basin country
- Republic of Ireland
- residence time of water
- 0.15
- vertical depth
- 7.6
- volume as quantity
- 887
- watershed area
- 10280
- historic county
- County Galway
- native label
- Loch Deirgeirt
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Encyclopedic overview
Lough Derg, historically Lough Dergart (Irish: Loch Deirgeirt), is a freshwater lake in the Shannon River Basin, Ireland. It is the third-biggest on the island of Ireland (after Lough Neagh and Lough Corrib) and the second largest lake in the Republic of Ireland.
It is a long, narrow lake, with shores in counties Clare (south-west), Galway (north-west), and Tipperary (to the east). It is the southernmost of three large lakes on the River Shannon; the others being Lough Ree and Lough Allen. Towns and villages on Lough Derg include Portumna, Killaloe & Ballina, Dromineer, Terryglass, Mountshannon and Garrykennedy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lough Derg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.