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Cloughoughter Castle in County Cavan, Ireland
An Irish isle ruin
All you need for a river is two banks and a steady flow of water, but that only describes part of this Irish river's 130-kilometre course. Here at Lough Oughter, the River Erne widens into a broad basin – part of a series of loughs that stretches northward almost to the Atlantic, dotted with islands large and small. This one holding Cloughoughter Castle seems so tiny the ruined fortress might flip it right over. Its battle scars from a 1649 siege still visible, Cloughoughter has been a favourite spot for painters (and, of course, photographers) for centuries.
An Irish isle ruin
All you need for a river is two banks and a steady flow of water, but that only describes part of this Irish river's 130-kilometre course. Here at Lough Oughter, the River Erne widens into a broad basin – part of a series of loughs that stretches northward almost to the Atlantic, dotted with islands large and small. This one holding Cloughoughter Castle seems so tiny the ruined fortress might flip it right over. Its battle scars from a 1649 siege still visible, Cloughoughter has been a favourite spot for painters (and, of course, photographers) for centuries.
An 130-kilometre river forms this labyrinthine lake, and several others, on its meander to the Atlantic.
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