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Lough Melvin, near Ballyshannon

Lough Melvin is a lake in County Leitrim, 7.7 km south of Ballyshannon in County Donegal.

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County LeitrimThe county boundary encloses it, taken from the OpenStreetMap administrative boundaries. It is listed on this site under Ballyshannon, which is the nearest settlement and is in County Donegal.
From Ballyshannon
7.7 km south, in a straight line
Lough Melvin, with Inishmean and Inishtemple, from the Glennans. The slope is the habitat for the Irish willow.
Lough Melvin, with Inishmean and Inishtemple, from the Glennans. The slope is the habitat for the Irish willow.·Dr Charles Nelson, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Lough Melvin, with Inishmean and Inishtemple, from the Glennans. The slope is the habitat for the Irish willow.·Dr Charles Nelson, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Lough Melvin is in Ballyshannon, County Donegal. Routes here end at the point the map records for this place. No entrance has been verified, so the last few metres are for you to judge.

It is 7.7 km south of the centre of Ballyshannon in a straight line. The map records no stop within walking distance.
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No scheduled stop was found within 2.5 km of Lough Melvin. On-demand services may not be included.

Getting to Ballyshannon covers the journeys into the town itself.

Other lakes in Ballyshannon

Nearest to Lough Melvin first, and the figure beside each one is how far it is from Lough Melvin, in a straight line. Same point, same measure.

All 60 lakes in Ballyshannon

Questions people ask

Where is Lough Melvin?
Near Ballyshannon, County Leitrim, 7.7 km south of the centre.
What are the opening hours of Lough Melvin?
Opening hours are not available on this page yet. Check with the business before travelling.
How far is Lough Melvin from the centre of Ballyshannon?
7.7 km south of the centre, measured in a straight line. The map above can work out the walk along the footpaths from wherever you are.
Are there other lakes near Lough Melvin?
60 in Ballyshannon altogether. The nearest are Arroo Lough, Assaroe Reservoir and Lough Lareen.
How do you get to Lough Melvin without a car?
No stop in the national timetable is within two and a half kilometres of Lough Melvin. That is what the published timetable holds rather than a statement that nothing goes near: services that run on demand, and routes that file no schedule, are not in the feed at all.

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The name, the kind of place, the address where the record carries one, and any website, phone or opening hours shown as recorded on the map are tags on OpenStreetMap a3454371, and can be corrected there.
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Every distance, the nearest road where the record has no address, which car park and which stop are nearest, and the order of the lists are this site’s own calculations from those records. Distances are straight lines between two points, not walks along the footpaths, and the map will route the real walk on request. A mistake in any of this is a mistake here rather than on the map.

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