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Definition of Loughs
1. lough [n] - See also: lough
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loughs
Literary usage of Loughs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wild Sports of the West: With Legendary Tales, and Local Sketches by William Hamilton Maxwell (1843)
"It is a curious fact, that the loughs where the party angled, though situate in
the same ... In the adjacent loughs, their hue is golden and pellucid, ..."
2. An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the by George Hill (1877)
"The River Fishings in loughs and Rivers are to be allotted unto the Proportions
next adjoining unto the loughs and Rivers wherein the said Fishings are, ..."
3. Black's Guide to Ireland by Adam and Charles Black (Firm), E. D. Jordan (1900)
"It would be a variation of the road to send the conveyance round to Lough Bray
Cottage, where, after a quiet walk up the glen, and a visit to the loughs ..."
4. The Gallery of Nature and Art: Or, a Tour Through Creation and Science by Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good (1818)
"Lakes or loughs have a very close connexion with bogs, as these last ...
chiefly devoted to the loughs of Ireland; and which we take from the Philosophical ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The principal of these tie in county West meat h, such as loughs Ennel, Owe!
and Derravaragh, famed for their trout-fishing in the May-fly season. ..."
6. Journal by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1873)
"... would seem to have been in the vicinity of loughs Corrib, Mask, and Carra,
for on or near their shores the ruins of many Cyclopean churches exist, ..."
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