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Lough Corrib (Irish: An Choirib or Loch Coirib) is the second largest loch in Ireland (after Lough Neagh) in Co Galway in the west of Ireland. The River Corrib connects the lake to the sea at Galway. Lough Corrib is about thirty-five miles in length from Galway to Maam and varies in breadth from eight miles, as between Oughterard and Cong, to one quarter of a mile, as from the Wood of Dun to Corran Point, where it narrows between Joyce Country and the Iar-Chonnacht hills. It covers some 200 km². Loch Coirib is a corruption of Loch nOirbsean, which according to place name lore is named after the Danann navigator Orbsiu Mac Alloid (commonly called Manannán Mac Lir, "The Son of the Sea," for whom the Isle of Man is named) Lough Corrib is reputed to have 365 islands. Most famous of which is Inchagoill Island located midway between Cong and Oughterard. The island has spectacular views of the Maumturk range, Joyce Country and the mountains of Connemara, and it is also home to two ancient venerated sites, set close together in its woods, St Patrick's Church believed to have been erected in the 5th century and the tiny 12th century Church of the Saints. Lough Corrib drains via the Corrib River through Galway City into Galway Bay. The main rivers into Lough Corrib include the River Clare and the canal through the village of Cong, which joins Lough Mask to Lough Corrib. The canal through Cong was the first canal cut in Ireland in the 12th century. Known as the Friar's Cut, it allowed boats to pass from Lough Corrib to the sea at Galway. William Wilde, father of Oscar Wilde wrote a book about the lake, first published in 1867. He built a summerhouse on the banks of the lake, called Moytura House. Lough Corrib was designated a Ramsar site on June 16, 1996. The Ramsar Convention is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable utilisation of wetlands, i.e., to stem the progressive encroachment and loss of wetlands now and in the future, recognizing the fundamental ecological functions of wetlands and their economic, cultural, scientific, and recreational value. It is named after the town of Ramsar in Iran.
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