1842 Bartlett print LOUGH CONN AND MOUNT NEPHIN, COUNTY MAYO, IRELAND, #83 |
Nice print titled Lough Conn and Mount Nephin, from steel engraving with fine detail and clear impression, nice hand coloring, page size is 27.5 x 20.5 cm, image size is 18 x 12 cm. Print was published in: The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland. Illustrated in one hundred and twenty engravings, from drawings by W.H. Bartlett, London, James S. Virtue, 1840-1842.
Lough Conn
Lough Conn (Irish: Loch Con) is a lake in County Mayo, Ireland
and covers about 14,000 acres (57 km²). With its immediate neighbour to the
south, Lough Cullin, it is connected to the Atlantic by the River Moy. Lough
Conn is noted for its trout and salmon fishing.
The ruins of a priory exist at Errew Abbey.
Nephin
Nephin or Nefin (Irish: Néifinn), at 806 metres (2646 ft), is the
second-highest peak in Connacht (after Mweelrea), Ireland. It is to the west of
Lough Conn in County Mayo. Néifinn is variously translated as meaning 'heavenly'
or 'sanctuary'.
It lies in the centre of Gleann Néifinne, a district bounded by Lough Conn to
the east, the Windy Gap/Barnageehy to the south, and Birreencorragh mountain to
the west. Its northern limit was in 1838 noted as the townland of Ballybrinoge
in the parish of Crossmolina. However, a prose tract of the 14th/15th century
makes clear that its northern and western borders were contracted during the
later medieval era.