page_title: Lough Mahon
hierarchical_section_title: Lough Mahon
caption_attribution_description: Image taken from: Title: "Illustrated Handbook to Cork, the Lakes of Killarney, and the South of Ireland ... From the Irish Tourists' Handbook [or rather “The Tourists' Illustrated Handbook for Ireland”]", "Appendix" Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 010390.ee.39." Page: 59 Place of Publishing: London Date of Publishing: 1859 Publisher: W. Smith &amp; Sons Issuance: monographic Identifier: 000786268 Explore: Find this item in the British Library catalogue, 'Explore'. Open the page in the British Library's itemViewer (page image 59) Download the PDF for this book Image found on book scan 59 (NB not a pagenumber)Download the OCR-derived text for this volume: (plain text) or (json) Click here to see all the illustrations in this book and click here to browse other illustrations published in books in the same year. Order a higher quality version from here.
context_page_description: Lough Mahon is a sea lough situated in the north-western part of Cork Harbour. Its area is about 12 km².
  Several Cork suburbs, such as Mahon, Douglas, Rochestown, Blackrock and Ballinlough as well as the town of Passage West are situated on its southern and western shores. To the north is Little Island and to the east Great Island.
  Lough Mahon falls within the Cork Harbour "Special Protection Area", as designated under the EU Birds Directive, and is an important habitat for a number of bird species and migrating waders in particular.
context_section_description: Lough Mahon (Irish: Loch Machan) is a sea lough situated in the north-western part of Cork Harbour. Its area is about 12 km² (5 sq mi).
  Several Cork suburbs, such as Mahon, Douglas, Rochestown, Blackrock and Ballinlough as well as the town of Passage West are situated on its southern and western shores. To the north is Little Island and to the east Great Island.
  Lough Mahon falls within the Cork Harbour "Special Protection Area", as designated under the EU Birds Directive, and is an important habitat for a number of bird species and migrating waders in particular.
caption: 19th century engraving of view of Lough Mahon from Cork's northside (looking south)
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