Lough Allen

proper noun

A lake in County Leitrim and County Roscommon, Ireland, with the River Shannon flowing into and out of it.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A lake in County Leitrim and County Roscommon, Ireland, with the River Shannon flowing into and out of it.

    For many years the coal measures on the shores of Lough Allen were worked only in the most primitive fashion, and the coal was transported laboriously in the inevitable ass carts of the Irish peasant.

    1951 May, R. K. Kirkland, “The Cavan & Leitrim Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 339
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