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CORRIB, LOUGH

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 196 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CORRIB, LOUGH

CORRIB, LOUGH , a See also:

lake of western See also:

Ireland, in the counties See also:

GALWAY

Galway and See also:

Mayo. It lies N.W. and S.E., and is 27 M. See also:

long, including a long projecting See also:

ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm at the See also:

north-See also:

west. The extreme breadth is 7 m., but the outline is extremely irregular, and the lough narrows near the centre to a few See also:

HUNDRED

hundred yards. Lough Corrib is very shallow, hardly exceeding 30 ft. in See also:

DEPTH

depth at any point, and it is covered with islands, of which there are some 300. It lies 29 ft. above See also:

sea-level, and drains by the See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

RIVER

river Corrib to Galway See also:

Bay. The large Lough See also:

MASK (Fr. masque, apparently from med. Lat. mascus, masca, spectre, through Ital. maschera, Span. mascara)

Mask lies to its north and is connected with it by a partly subterranean channel. The scenery is pleasant, but the shores are See also:

low, except at the north-west, where the See also:

WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild foothills of Joyce's See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

Country rise.

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