Lough Foyle

Lough Foyle
Loch Feabhail (Irish)
Lough Foyle seen from south shore
From south shore
LocationRepublic of Ireland – United Kingdom border
Coordinates55°07′00″N 7°05′00″W / 55.116667°N 7.083333°W / 55.116667; -7.083333
River sourcesRiver Foyle, River Roe, River Faughan
Ocean/sea sourcesAtlantic Ocean, Irish Sea
Basin countriesNorthern Ireland,
Republic of Ireland
SettlementsBallykelly, Derry, Greencastle, Shrove, Magilligan, Moville, Muff
Designated2 February 1999
Reference no.974[1]

Lough Foyle, sometimes Loch Foyle[2][full citation needed] (Irish: Loch Feabhail, meaning 'Feabhal's loch'[3] or "loch of the lip"[4]), is the estuary of the River Foyle, on the north coast of Ireland. It lies between County Londonderry in Northern Ireland and County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland. Sovereignty over the waters has been in dispute since the Partition of Ireland.

Seen from Space: Derry with the Ulster coastline with Lough Swilly west and Lough Foyle east of the city and the Inishowen.
  1. ^ "Lough Foyle". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  2. ^ See Google Books for published examples online.
  3. ^ Flanagan, Deirdre & Laurence; Irish Place Names, page 212. Gill & MacMillan, 2002. ISBN 0-7171-3396-6
  4. ^ "Place Names NI - Home". www.placenamesni.org. Archived from the original on 16 August 2018. Retrieved 20 May 2021.

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