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Lough Gill
Loch Gile (Irish)
Lake and Innisfree
Lough Gill location in Ireland
Lough Gill location in Ireland
Location in Ireland
LocationCounty Sligo & County Leitrim, Ireland
Coordinates54°15′N 08°22′W / 54.250°N 8.367°W / 54.250; -8.367
Primary inflowsBonet River
Primary outflowsRiver Garavogue
Basin countriesIreland
Max. length8 km (5.0 mi)
Max. width2 km (1.2 mi)
Surface area12.8 km2 (4.9 sq mi)
Max. depth31 m (102 ft)[1]
Surface elevation7 m (23 ft)
Islands~20, including Church Island
SettlementsSligo

Lough Gill (Irish: Loch Gile, meaning 'bright or white lake')[2] is a freshwater lough (lake) mainly situated in County Sligo, but partly in County Leitrim, in Ireland. Lough Gill provides the setting for William Butler Yeats' poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree".

  1. ^ "Lough Gill - Sampling Fish for the Water Framework Directive - Lakes 2008" (PDF). The Central and Regional Fisheries Boards. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 November 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Loch Gile/Lough Gill". Placenames Database of Ireland. Government of Ireland - Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Dublin City University. Archived from the original on 8 July 2018. Retrieved 8 July 2018.

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