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Black Lough

Black Lough covers 1 ha with 410 m of shore, 2.3 km east of Clones.

Getting to the water

No public road or path on the map comes within sixty metres of any part of this shore. That may be because the land around it is private, or only because nobody has mapped the way in. Nothing here tells the two apart, so this page says neither.

1 ha
of water
410 m
of shore
0
stretches of shore a way reaches
Area
1 ha measured from the mapped outline
Shore
410 m around the outline
County
Not established
Public access
No public way reaches the shoreMeasured from the map, not from a statement of permission
On the map
OpenStreetMap record

No openly licensed photograph of Black Lough was found. Rather than show a picture of somewhere else, this page shows none.

Where it is

The pin sits from the middle of the water, and every distance on this page is measured from that same point. The other pins are the nearest lakes in the county.

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Parking, viewpoints and stops

Everything here is measured from the middle of the water. A viewpoint is a place that looks at the lake, which is not the same as a place on it.

Parking

No mapped car park within two kilometres has a walking route to this shore. That is a gap in the map rather than a statement that there is nowhere to park.

Viewpoints

None mapped within 2.5 km.

Nearest stops
  • Magheraveely Bus Stop2.0 km

Getting to Black Lough

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Public transport times come from National Transport Authority. Timetables cover 2026-09-18 to 2027-09-19. These are scheduled services; check with the operator for cancellations and changes before travelling.

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How journey planning works
Destination, access and nearby stops

Black Lough is in Clones, County Monaghan. The only point the map gives for this lake is the middle of the water, and no public way was found reaching its shore. Routes below stop where they can and say where that is.

Clones is the nearest settlement, 2.3 km east of the lake. Arriving in Clones is not arriving at the water, so the journeys below are worked out to the water and say so when they cannot reach it.
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Stops near it

The nearest scheduled stop is Clones (155911), 2.2 km away in a straight line. Use the planner to check walking connections for your journey.

  • Clones 2.2 km
    buses 176, 175A, 65 and CB1 among others
    Scheduled departures from this stop
  • Clones Diamond 2.2 km
    bus GM13
    Scheduled departures from this stop

Getting to Clones covers the journeys into the town itself.

Questions people ask

Can you walk to Black Lough?
No public road or path on the map comes within sixty metres of any part of the shore. That may mean the ground around it is private, or only that nobody has mapped the way in. This page does not say which, because it does not know.
How big is Black Lough?
1 ha, with 410 m of shore, measured from the outline OpenStreetMap holds, which is made of 2 records merged into one lake here.
Where can you park for Black Lough?
The map records no car park within two kilometres that a walking route reaches. That is a gap in the map rather than a statement that there is nowhere to park.
How do you get to Black Lough without a car?
The nearest stop in the national timetable is Clones, 2.2 km from the middle of the water in a straight line, and buses 176, 175A, 65 and CB1 among others call there, run by TFI Local Link Cavan Monaghan and Bus Éireann. The planner on this page works out the walk from that stop, and where no footway joins it to the water it says so rather than making a number up.

Where this comes from

The lake itself
The outline, the name and the identifiers are OpenStreetMap records, 2 of them merged here into one lake. Correct it there
What this site measured
The area and the shore are worked out from that outline. The stretches of shore a way reaches, the walk in from a car park and every distance on this page are worked out here, on this site’s own graph of the OpenStreetMap ways, last built on 2026-09-20. These are this site’s calculations, not the map’s, and a mistake in them is a mistake here.