LOUGH

CORRIB  , a lake of western Ireland, in the counties Galway and Mayo . It lies N.W. and S.E., and is 27 M. long, including a long projecting arm at the north-west . The extreme breadth is 7 m., but the outline is extremely irregular, and the lough narrows near the centre to a few hundred yards . Lough Corrib is very shallow, hardly exceeding 30 ft. in depth at any point, and it is covered with islands, of which there are some 300 . It lies 29 ft. above sea-level, and drains by the short river Corrib to Galway Bay . The large Lough Mask lies to its north and is connected with it by a partly subterranean channel . The scenery is pleasant, but the shores are low, except at the north-west, where the wild foothills of Joyce's Country rise .