Lough Neagh

The photo shows the view of Lough Neagh from Taylorstown Hill outside Moneyglass.

Lough Neagh is in east-central Northern Ireland, about 20 miles (32 km) west of Belfast.
It is the largest lake in Ireland and Britain, covering 153 square miles (396 square km), with a catchment area of 2,200 square miles (5,700 square km). The chief feeders of the lake are the Upper River Bann, the River Blackwater, and the River Maine, and it is drained northward by the Lower Bann. Lough Neagh averages 15 miles (24 km) wide, is 18 miles
(29 km) long, and is for the most part only 40 feet (12 m) deep. In 1959 flood-control works significantly lowered the lake level.

Ancient deposits in Toome, on its northwestern shore, have yielded the oldest-recorded human artifacts in Ireland. .

Toome is also famous for its eel fishery, which exports to countries all over Europe.

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