Lough Derg
Sign in to savelake on River Shannon, in counties Clare (south-west), Galway (north-west), and Tipperary (to the east)
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
Sources (3)
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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.