Lough Neagh View Traditional Cache
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Please be careful when parking your car. It would be advisable to leave the hazard warning lights on. Quite hilly if you are cycling or walking. Not suitable for wheelchair users.
Cache is in a plastic container with only a log and a pen. Please replace cache upright as indicated. I hope you enjoy the views from here. It is also very peaceful.
Lough Neagh is situated in the centre of Northern Ireland with five of the Province’s six counties touching its shores.
They are Antrim, Armagh, Down, Londonderry and Tyrone.
Fermanagh, of course, has 2 loughs of it's own!
It is the biggest Lough in the British Isles and the third biggest lake in Europe measuring over 300 square km’s. It contains over 800 billion gallons of water, enough to fill 7 million swimming pools.
Traditional working boats on Lough Neagh include wide-beamed 16-to-21-foot (4.9 to 6.4 m) clinker-built, sprit-rigged working boats and smaller flat-bottomed "cots" and "flats". Barges, here called "lighters", were used up to the 1940s to transport coal over the lough and adjacent canals. Up to the 17th century, log boats (coití) were the main means of transport, some of which are as old as 6,400 years. Few traditional boats are left now, but a community-based group on the southern shore of the lough is rebuilding a series of working boats.
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