Lough Derg
Lough Derg, historically Lough Dergart, is a freshwater lake in the Shannon River Basin, Ireland. It is the third-biggest on the island of Ireland and the second largest lake in the Republic of Ireland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: C O’Flanagan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Annagh Lake.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dromineer and Whitegate.
Dromineer
Village
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nenagh is a market town in County Tipperary, Ireland: in Irish it's Aonach Urmhumhan, the market Fair of Ormond. Tipperary was from 1838 divided into a north and south riding, but this was abolished in 2014, so Nenagh became the county town jointly with Clonmel and had a population in 2022 of 9900. Dromineer is situated 4 km southeast of Lough Derg.
Whitegate
Hamlet
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Whitegate is a village on the R352 regional road in northeastern County Clare, Ireland. It is part of the Catholic parish Mountshannon-Whitegate. The former local church, which had been in disuse for some years, is now a warehouse and lumberyard. Whitegate is situated 4½ km west of Lough Derg.
Mountshannon
Village
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Mountshannon is a village in east County Clare, Ireland. It is part of the civil parish of Inishcaltra. The village is on the western shore of Lough Derg, north of Killaloe. Mountshannon won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition in 1981. Mountshannon is situated 9 km west of Lough Derg.
Lough Derg
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake on River Shannon, in counties Clare (south-west), Galway (north-west), and Tipperary (to the east)
- Category: body of water
- Location: Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Lough Derg” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Derg aintzira”
- Breton: “Loch Deirgeirt”
- Catalan: “llac Derg”
- Catalan: “Llac Derg”
- Cebuano: “Lough Derg (lanaw, lat 52,96, long -8,31)”
- Cebuano: “Lough Derg”
- Chinese: “德格湖”
- Chuvash: “Лох-Дерг”
- Czech: “Lough Derg”
- Danish: “Lough Derg”
- Dutch: “Lough Derg”
- Esperanto: “Derg”
- Finnish: “Lough Derg”
- French: “Lough Derg”
- Georgian: “ლოხ-დერგი”
- German: “Lough Derg”
- Irish: “Loch Deirgeirt”
- Italian: “Lough Derg”
- Japanese: “ダーグ湖”
- Latvian: “Derga ezers”
- Latvian: “Derģerts”
- Latvian: “Loch Deirgeirt”
- Latvian: “Lohderga ezers”
- Latvian: “Lohdergs”
- Latvian: “Lough Derg”
- Lithuanian: “Dergas”
- Lithuanian: “Dergo ežeras”
- Macedonian: “Лох Дерг”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lough Derg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Loch Deirgeirt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lough Derg”
- Norwegian: “Lough Derg”
- Polish: “Loch Deirgeirt”
- Polish: “Lough Derg”
- Russian: “Лох-Дерг”
- Spanish: “Lago Derg”
- Swedish: “Lough Derg”
- Turkish: “Lough Derg (Shannon)”
- Turkish: “Lough Derg”
- Venetian: “Lough Derg”
- Welsh: “Loch Deirgeirt”
- Welsh: “Lough Derg”
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