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Lough Allen

Lough Allen proper noun: a lake in County Leitrim and County Roscommon, Ireland, with the River Shannon flowing into and out of it.

Proper noun

Lough Allen

  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

Questions about Lough Allen

What does Lough Allen mean?
Lough Allen means a lake in County Leitrim and County Roscommon, Ireland, with the River Shannon flowing into and out of it.
What part of speech is Lough Allen?
Lough Allen is a proper noun.

Words near Lough Allen in the dictionary

  1. Loufan
  2. Louga
  3. Lougee
  4. Lougees
  5. lough
  6. Lough Allen
  7. Lough Erne
  8. Lough Foyle
  9. Lough Gill
  10. Lough Neagh
  11. Lough Swilly

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