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Carrowmore Lake

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48: 64: 71: 223:'s two townlands line its eastern shore and Rathmorgan and the Knocknascollop mountains rise up along its western shores. Carrowmore is not a deep lake and it provides the drinking water for the whole of the Erris area. It is fed by the Carrowmore River and drains into the 242:. Its shorelines are dominated by blanket bog mainly but there are many houses, mainly linear in layout, along both sides of its shores. Its catchment area includes the townland of 317: 147: 47: 400: 455: 117: 63: 428: 231:. The lake is designated as a S.P.A. (Birds directive) in E.U. law and also as 000476 Complex S.A.C. (Special Area of Conservation). 368: 270:
to as late as the 17th century. The fort of Rathmorgan on the mountain at the south west corner of the lake is the site of the
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There are many islands in the lake. Some of these are thought to have been
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It is an oligotrophic/mesotrophic lake with a substrate of Dalradian
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Irish

Carrowmore Lake is located in Ireland
County Mayo
Connacht
Ireland
54°11′N 9°47′W / 54.183°N 9.783°W / 54.183; -9.783
F836275
Basin
Ireland
Irish
Kiltane
Kilcommon
Erris
County Mayo
Bangor Erris
Barnatra
Broadhaven Bay
Glencullen
Owenmore River
Blacksod Bay
schists
quartzite
Bellanaboy
Kilcommon
Corrib Gas
crannogs
Iron Age
Táin Bó Flidhais
Cruachan

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