Lough Carra (Irish: Loch Ceara)[2] is a limestone lake (marl)[1] of 4,000 acres (16 km2), in County Mayo, Ireland, about 8 miles (13 km) south of Castlebar. It is approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) long and varies in width from 400 yards (370 m) to one mile (1.6 km). The average depth is 6 feet (1.8 m), with a maximum of 60.[1] It drains into Lough Mask via the Keel River.
Lough Carra was part of the estate of the well-known Moore family of Moore Hall.[3]
It is a well-known brown trout lough, and is situated northeast of Lough Mask.
^ abcLough Carra Archived 2010-03-26 at the Wayback Machine descriptive document, loughcarra.org. Retrieved 2010-07-27.
^"Loch Ceara/Lough Carra". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Dublin City University. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
^Moorehall and Lough Carra website. Retrieved 2010-07-27.
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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...
empty into the Corrib River, through Galway, into Galway Bay. LoughCarra flows into Lough Mask, which discharges through the Cong Canal and underground...
with their islands) are also protected, those being Lough Mask, Lough Conn, Lough Cullin, LoughCarra and Carrowmore Lake. The biodiversity of the islands...
towns of Ballinrobe and Castlebar, and between LoughCarra and Lough Mask. The lakes Cloon Lough and Lough Nacorralea are located near Partry. While formerly...
Partraige Cera - located at the northern end of Lough Mask (Loch Mask) and the region of LoughCarra (Loch Corrib), County Mayo. Partraige in Laca - at...
Oirbsen, and divided his land despite him. Lough Mask LoughCarra List of loughs of County Mayo List of loughs in Ireland Milwaukee Cryptosporidium outbreak...
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walls. George Moore (1727–1799), who founded the Moore Hall estate at LoughCarra, came from Ashbrook House near Strade. A museum in the village records...
link between Lough Corrib at the village of Cong and Lough Mask, six kilometres to the north. It was part of the large Corrib, Mask and Carra Drainage and...
whom were kings of Connacht Partraige – a pre-Gaelic people of Lough Mask and LoughCarra, namesakes of Partry Umaill – kingdom surrounding Clew Bay, east...
miles north of Ballinrobe. The River Robe runs through the parish and LoughCarra is located two miles to the west beside the townland of Brownstown. The...
Partry Mountains and Lough Mask) Local road north-east of LoughCarra, from Carnacon to north of Ballygarries (looking towards LoughCarra) Local roads north-west...
origins. Ua Goirmghiallaigh's branch of the Partraige were located around LoughCarra in what is now County Mayo, and have given their name to the parish of...
(1852-1933), Irish novelist, ashes buried in an urn on Castle Island in LoughCarra, County Mayo, in sight of the ruins of his ancestral family home at Moore...
his first paper at age sixteen in the Irish Naturalist on the birds of LoughCarra, and went on to publish over 200 papers over his lifetime. Ruttledge...
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