• Source: List of loughs of Ireland

This is 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 () and comes from the Irish loch, meaning lake.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, there are an estimated 12,000 lakes in the Republic of Ireland, covering an area of more than 1,200 square kilometres. The largest lough, by area, in Ireland is Lough Neagh. Lough Corrib is the second largest, and is the largest in the Republic. The largest lough, by water volume, is Lough Neagh, with Lough Mask being the largest in the Republic.
The list below contains only those loughs that are of geographic, geological, or historical importance and almost all of them are over a square kilometre in area. It includes loughs that are in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Those partly or wholly within Northern Ireland are marked with an asterisk (*).




Largest Irish lakes


The largest freshwater loughs in Ireland are:

Muckross Lake (the middle lake of the Killarney lakes) is the deepest Irish lake, with a maximum depth of 75 metres.
(Volume = Area * Mean Depth)




Freshwater lakes



Lakes with the county/counties where they are situated and their area in square kilometres. Most of the Republic of Ireland lake areas are taken from the Environmental Protection Agency's A Reference based Typology and Ecological Assessment System for Irish Lakes (pp. 10–13)




= Brackish loughs

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An example of a brackish lagoon is Lady's Island Lake, County Wexford




= Turloughs

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Loughareema, County Antrim*
Glenamaddy Turlough, County Galway
Rahasane Turlough, County Galway
Shannon Pot, County Cavan




= Reservoirs

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Poulaphouca Reservoir, County Wicklow
Silent Valley Reservoir, County Down*
Spelga Reservoir, County Down*
Vartry Reservoir, County Wicklow




Sea loughs


Belfast Lough, between County Antrim and County Down*
Strangford Lough, County Down*
Lough Foyle, between County Donegal and County Londonderry*
Galway Bay, County Galway
Lough Hyne, County Cork
Larne Lough, County Antrim*
Lough Mahon, County Cork
Shannon Estuary, Munster
Tralee Bay, County Kerry
Waterford Harbour, County Waterford
Wexford Harbour, County Wexford




= Fjords

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Carlingford Lough, between County Louth and County Down*
Lough Swilly, County Donegal
Killary Harbour, between County Mayo & County Galway




See also



Rivers of Ireland
List of rivers of Ireland
List of loughs of County Mayo
Lake-burst




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• List of loughs of Ireland
• Loch
• Lough Derg (Shannon)
• Lough Neagh
• Carlingford Lough
• Lough Tay
• List of rivers of Ireland
• Lough Erne
• Lough Ree
• Lough Conn