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CONN, LOUGH

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 950 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CONN, LOUGH

CONN, LOUGH , a See also:

lake of western See also:

Ireland, in Co. See also:

Mayo. Its length (N.N.W. to S.S.E.) is 9 m. and its extreme breadth rather over 4 m., but two promontories projecting from opposite shores about the centre narrow it to less than 1 m. On the See also:

south a passage so narrow as to be bridged communicates with Lough Cullin; the current through this channel, normally from Conn to Cullin, is sometimes reversed. The See also:

TOTAL

total length of the two loughs is nearly 12 m. They drain eastward by a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short channel tributary to the Moy, and the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal affluents are the Deel and the Mantilla. Lough Conn lies 42 ft. above See also:

sea-level. It contains a few islands, and its shores are generally See also:

low, but the isolated See also:

mass of Nephin (2646 ft.) rises finely on the See also:

west. The lake is in favour with anglers.

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