* Lough Melvin is internationally renowned for its unique range of plants and animals.

Rivers and lakes include River Moy, River Corrib, the Shannon, Lough Mask, Lough Melvin, Lough Allen and Lough Gill.

He also founded monasteries at Drumlane, near Milltown in County Cavan, at Ferns in County Wexford, across the Irish Sea in Wales where he was under the monastic rule of Saint David, at Disert-Nairbre in County Waterford and finally in Rossinver in County Leitrim where, on Lough Melvin ’ s shore, he died on the 31 January, 632.

* Lough Melvin, a lake on the border with the Republic of Ireland

There were only two locomotives of this type, Lough Melvin and Lough Erne, and they were built by Beyer, Peacock in 1949.

It lies south of Lough Melvin on the R281 regional road.

Kinlough ( ; ) nestles between the Dartry Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean, the River Duff and the River Drowes, Kinlough is a village in North Leitrim at the head of Lough Melvin.

It borders Donegal and Fermanagh, is in close proximity to Yeats Country, 2. 5 miles from Bundoran, Co. Donegal, and across the lake ( Lough Melvin ) from Garrison, Co. Fermanagh.

Lough Melvin ( Irish: Lough Meilbhe ) is internationally renowned for its unique range of plants and animals.

Nearby to Largydonnell Post Office at the hump-backed bridge, on a road to the right in Ahanlish are the ruins of an old forge where De Cuellar, where a survivor of the wreck of the Spanish Armada at Tullaghan spent some time before proceeding to MacClancy's Castle at Rosclogher in Lough Melvin where he remained for three months.

The village is at the southern shore of Lough Melvin and population is at its densest at the junctions of the R281 and the R282 regional roads and has a population of just under ten thousand who work in Rossinvers booming industry sector.

* MacClancy Castle ; survivors of shipwrecked sailors from the Spanish Armada took refuge in this castle on Lough Melvin in 1588.

Instead it cascades in a series of drops over the exposed bedrock to form a spectacular torrent of water rushing through the steep valley towards Lough Melvin.

It extends east to the edge of Lough Melvin and Garrison lowlands, west to Bunduff strand ( in the north Sligo coastal area ) and inland to the northern slopes of the Dartry Mountains and the Arroo and Mountain Outliers.

Coal mining became prominent in the 19th century to the east of Lough Allen in Sliabh an Iariann and also to the west in Arigna, on the Roscommon border.

The River Blackwater marks the border with County Tyrone and Lough Neagh otherwise marks out the County's northern boundary.

The border to the northeast is defined by Lough Derg which is the third largest lake on Ireland.

Tang is in County Westmeath but on the border with County Longford from which it is separated by the River Tang, which flows into Lough Ree 3 km downstream via the River Inny.

The IRA were to be concentrated in the county of Leitrim on the border facing Lough Erne and Upper Lough Erne awaiting the arrival of German forces in Northern Ireland.

At, Lough Sheelin is the county's largest lake situated in the south of the county and forms a three way border on its waters between counties Meath and Westmeath and Cavan.

It refers to two separate places, both in Connacht: the first near Cong, County Mayo on the border with County Galway ; the second by Lough Arrow in County Sligo.

The Lough Neagh catchment drains 43 % of the land mass of Northern Ireland, as well as some border areas in the Republic of Ireland all in Ulster.

Carlingford Lough (; Ulster Scots: Carlinford Loch or Cairlinfurd Loch ) is a glacial fjord or sea inlet that forms part of the border between Northern Ireland to the north and the Republic of Ireland to the south.

From Leenaun, the Mayo section of the trail climbs over Sheefry Bridge, then down into Westport, then on through Newport, Sheskin, Ballycastle, Killala, Ballina, ending at Lough Talt in the Ox Mountains near the Sligo border.

In addition, the Irish border on the map portrayed in the film is inaccurate, placing the border too far east, and roughly along the eastern coast of Lough Erne rather than the border of County Fermanagh.

The town enjoys a scenic location on the eastern shore of Lough Foyle, some 30 km from Derry, which lies across the border in Northern Ireland.

It is near the mouth of the River Foyle ( where it flows into Lough Foyle ) and sits at the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Ashford Castle is a medieval castle turned five star luxury hotel near Cong on the Mayo / Galway border in Ireland, on the shore of Lough Corrib.

From there it heads NW along the southern shore of Carlingford Lough, through the village of Omeath to the Northern Ireland border where it becomes the B79 into Newry, County Down.

The border runs for a total of from Lough Foyle in the north-west of the island to Carlingford Lough in the north-east ( on the Irish Sea ).

As recently as 2005, when asked to list those areas of EU member states where border definition is in dispute, a British Government minister responding for the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs stated: " Border definition ( ie the demarcation of borders between two internationally recognised sovereign states with an adjoining territorial or maritime border ) is politically disputed Ireland the UK ( Lough Foyle, Carlingford Lough — quiescent )" It appears moves have been made on the Irish side to settle the issue.

Lough Navar is a frosty location, with some 76 air frosts recorded in a typical year.

We rode in sorrow, with strong hounds three, Bran, Sgeolan, and Lomair, On a morning misty and mild and fair. The mist-drops hung on the fragrant trees, And in the blossoms hung the bees. We rode in sadness above Lough Lean, For our best were dead on Gavra's green.

Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of 3, 046 km², with a population of approximately 616, 000.

On both coasts there are several resort towns, including Portrush ( with well-known golf links ), Portballintrae and Ballycastle ; on the east Cushendun, Cushendall and Waterfoot on Red Bay, Carnlough and Glenarm, Larne on the Sea of Moyle, and Whitehead on Belfast Lough.

The valleys of the Bann and Lagan, with the intervening shores of Lough Neagh, form the fertile lowlands.

William Butler Yeats spent the turn of the twentieth century fascinated with Lough Allen and much of Leitrim.

Adjoined to the south-west shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of 3, 155 km², with a population of approximately 166, 516, with its county town being Omagh.

Adjoined to the south shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of 1, 254 km², with a population of approximately 159, 085.

From its highest point at Slieve Gullion, in the south of the County, Armagh's land falls away from its rugged south with Carrigatuke, Lislea and Camlough mountains, to rolling drumlin country in the middle and west of the county and finally flatlands in the north where rolling flats and small hills reach sea level at Lough Neagh.

In 937 the Limerick Vikings clashed with those of Dublin on Lough Ree and were defeated.

There is also the Ardnacrusha canal connected with the Ardnacrusha dam south of Lough Derg.

Due to the shallow mud of Strangford Lough, Newtown never developed as a port, with goods instead transported from the nearby town of Donaghadee on the Irish Sea coast of the Ards Peninsula.

* George Lough, Scottish immigrant who was one of the earliest importers of cheviot sheep to America, and with son in law William Curry established the American Cheviot Sheep Breeders Association.

Adjoined to the south-east shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of 2, 448 km², with a population of about 492, 840.

There are also areas of petroleum and natural gas on shore, for example the Lough Allen basin, with of gas and of oil, valued at € 74. 4 billion.

Essex then switched tack, having struck a deal with Turlough Luineach, and defeated Sorley Boy around Castle Toome, where the Bann flows out of Lough Neagh.

In the end, however, the rebels insisted upon the dismissal of all who had taken shelter in his house, and on the bishop's refusal he was seized and imprisoned with some others to the nearby island castle of Lough Oughter, Cloughoughter Castle.

Kathryn Tickell ( a protegée of Anderson's in her youth ) has composed many virtuoso pieces for the smallpipes and has explored an even wider range of collaborations ; besides The Chieftains and The Boys of the Lough, she has worked with the Penguin Café Orchestra, percussionist Evelyn Glennie, jazz saxophonist Andy Sheppard and Sting, as well as having had a modern classical piece, Kettletoft Inn, composed for her by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

It was the construction of the Newry Canal ( linking Carlingford Lough with Lough Neagh ) in 1740, coupled with the growth of the railway in the 19th century, which put Portadown at the hub of transport routes.

The Newry Canal, opened in 1742, linked Carlingford Lough and the Irish Sea with Lough Neagh.