Anglo-Irish. Forms: 4 lowe, 6 logh, 6– lough. [The written form belongs to LOUGH1, from which this need not have been separated but for the fact that, while the spelling lough survived in Ireland, the spoken word which it represented became obsolete, being superseded by the native Irish loch: see LOCH1.] A lake or arm of the sea; equivalent to the Scottish LOCH1.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), I. 349. He wolde sende hir hym to þe Lowe Lacheryn.
1512. Galway Arch., in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 395. The fishers of the logh bringe to the market thre dais in the wicke.
1567. in E. P. Shirley, Hist. Monaghan, 88, note. That fortification … is in ‘sartin ffreshwater loghes’ in his country.
1600. Fairfax, Tasso, I. xliv. 10. Whom Ireland sent from loughes and forrests hore.
1690. Lond. Gaz., No. 2540/2. Several Ships arrived that day in the Lough of Carrickfergus.
1708. Brit. Apollo, No. 73. 2/1. There is a Lough in the North of Ireland, call’d Neugh.
1882. Mrs. Riddell, Pr. of Wales’s Garden-Party, 230. On the other side of the lough … lay the green hills.
1900. Stephen Gwynn, in Blackw. Mag., Oct., 580/1. Down in Mayo I had ridden out with rods strapped on my bicycle to fish for white trout in a little lough that lies at the foot of Nephin.
