Loughrea, a market-town in County Galway, beautifully situated on a little fresh-water lake, 17 miles SW. of Ballinasloe. It has ruins of a castle and Carmelite monastery, both of about 1300. Pop. 3159.
Loughrea
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 721
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