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3 unusual facts about Carrowmore Lake


Carrowmore Lake

The fort of Rathmorgan on the mountain at the south west corner of the lake is the site of the Táin Bó Flidhais cattle raid on Erris from Cruachan in Tulsk, Co.

Carrowmore Lake is situated in the parishes of Kiltane and Kilcommon Erris, County Mayo between the villages of Bangor Erris and Barnatra at the southern end of Broadhaven Bay.

Glencullen townlands line its eastern shore and Rathmorgan and the Knocknascollop mountains rise up along its western shores.


Glenamoy

The Owenmore river flows via Carrowmore Lake into Blacksod Bay where a tributary of it known as the Munhin River connects the area with the great Ulster Cycle saga of Táin Bó Flidhais, the Glenamoy River into Sruwaddacon estuary and Broadhaven Bay.

Táin Bó Flidhais

Mayo, one at Rathmorgan, known as Dún Flidhais, situated at the southern end of Carrowmore Lake in Erris and another west of Lough Conn near Nephin, known as Dún Átha Féan, further south.


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