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unusual facts about Lough Conn



Gillaroo

Other lakes reputed to contain the gillaroo are Loughs Neagh, Conn, Mask and Corrib.

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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Roman Catholic Diocese of Killala

In the twelfth century three of the oldest native Irish monasteries were ordered to adopt the Rule of the Canons of St. Augustine: Cross Abbey (which had been transferred from Inisglora to Kilmore Erris); Errew in Lough Conn and Aughris in Tireragh (said to have been founded from Inishmurray by St. Molaise in 571).