Lough Talt

Lough Talt by Padraig Maye.

No visit to our parish is complete without a visit to the “jewel” of our parish Lough Talt or as it is affectionately known locally “The Lake”. Lough Talt is part of the Lough Hoe Bog Special Area of Conservation, an area of mountain bogland and oligotrophic lakes. Lough Talt is the largest of the lakes in the Lough Hoe Bog area and it is a glacier lake and found at 130 metres (430ft) above sea leveland measures 40 m (130 ft) at its deepest point. Its area is approximately 1 km2 (0.39 sq mi). The lake flows out to the Lough Talt River which eventually joins the River Moy. 

It is located in the Ox Mountains about three miles from Aclare village in the parish of Kilmactigue on the Tubbercurry-Ballina road. The lake is nestled between Crummus mountain on one side and Gleneaske mountain on the other.