Lough Graney ()
is a lake in
County Clare,
Ireland. The lake's outlet is the short River Graney, which flows through Lough O'Grady and past the town of
Scarriff into the west side of
Lough Derg.
Recreation
Lough Graney is a site for fishing
perch,
ferox trout
Ferox trout (''Salmo ferox'') is a variety of trout found in oligotrophic lakes/lochs of Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales. Ferox trout is a traditional name for large, piscivorous trout, which in Scotland feed largely on Arctic char. It has b ...
,
roach and
bream.
In popular culture
* The Lough has a place in the history of
Irish literature. This is because, in 1780, local poet and
hedge school master
Brian Merriman
Brian Merriman or in Irish Brian Mac Giolla Meidhre (c. 1747 – 27 July 1805) was an Irish language bard, farmer, and hedge school teacher from rural County Clare. His single surviving work of substance, the 1000-line long Dream vision poem ( ...
set the beginning of his mock-
Aisling
The aisling (, , approximately ), or vision poem, is a poetic genre that developed during the late 17th and 18th centuries in Irish language Irish poetry, poetry. The word may have a number of variations in pronunciation, but the ''is'' of t ...
poem ''Cúirt An Mheán Oíche'' ("The Midnight Court") along the shores of Lough Graney. A stone which has been carved with the opening lines of the poem in
Munster Irish now stands overlooking the site.
[Seamus Heaney (1995), ''The Redress of Poetry,'' Faber & Faber, p. 62.]
See also
*
List of loughs in Ireland
This is an alphabetical list of loughs (lakes) on the island of Ireland. It also shows a table of the largest loughs. The word ''lough'' is pronounced like ''loch'' () and comes from the Irish ''loch'', meaning ''lake''.
According to the Environm ...
References
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Lakes of County Clare