Lough Foyle
Lough Foyle, sometimes Loch Foyle, is the estuary of the River Foyle, on the north coast of Ireland. It lies between County Londonderry in Northern Ireland and County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Don MacFarlane, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Greysteel and Ballykelly.
Greysteel
Village
Greysteel or Gresteel is a village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It lies 9 miles to the east of Derry and 7 miles to the west of Limavady on the main A2 coast road between Limavady and Derry, overlooking Lough Foyle.
Ballykelly
Village
Photo: Kay Atherton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ballykelly is a village and townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It lies 3 miles west of Limavady on the main Derry to Limavady A2 road and is 15 miles east of Derry.
Lough Foyle
- Type: Bay
- Description: estuary
- Categories: estuary, disputed territory, and body of water
- Location: United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.10889° or 55° 6′ 32″ northLongitude
-7.11278° or 7° 6′ 46″ westOpen location code
9C7J4V5P+HVOpenStreetMap ID
node 823679079OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
2964227Wikidata ID
Q1314643
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Lough Foyle” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Foyle aintzira”
- Catalan: “Lough Foyle”
- Cebuano: “Lough Foyle”
- Chinese: “福伊尔湾”
- Chinese: “福伊爾灣”
- Dutch: “Lough Foyle”
- Esperanto: “Loch Feabhail”
- French: “Lough Foyle”
- German: “Lough Foyle”
- Hebrew: “לוך פויל”
- Irish: “Loch Feabhail”
- Italian: “Lough Foyle”
- Japanese: “フォイル湖”
- Manx: “Loch Feabhail”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lough Foyle”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lough Foyle”
- Norwegian: “Lough Foyle”
- Polish: “Lough Foyle”
- Portuguese: “Lough Foyle”
- Russian: “Лох-Фойл”
- Slovenian: “Lough Foyle”
- Spanish: “Lough Foyle”
- Swedish: “Lough Foyle”
- Turkish: “Lough Foyle”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lough Foyle”. Photo: Don MacFarlane, CC BY-SA 2.0.