Fin Lough
Fin Lough covers 6 ha with 1.2 km of shore in County Roscommon, 2.9 km east of Cootehall.
A public road or path on the map comes within 54 m of the shore, along about 50 m of it. That is what the map contains. It is not a statement that the public may walk there, because OpenStreetMap does not record permission, and nobody has checked this lake against its owner.
- Area
- 6 ha measured from the mapped outline
- Shore
- 1.2 km around the outline
- County
- County Roscommon
- Public access
- A public way reaches the shoreMeasured from the map, not from a statement of permission
- On the map
- OpenStreetMap record
No openly licensed photograph of Fin Lough was found. Rather than show a picture of somewhere else, this page shows none.
Where it is
The pin sits from the main access point on the shore, and every distance on this page is measured from that same point. The other pins are the nearest lakes in County Roscommon.
Parking, viewpoints and stops
Everything here is measured from the main access point on the shore. A viewpoint is a place that looks at the lake, which is not the same as a place on it.
An unnamed car park is 1.4 km away, and the walk from it to the shore is 2.8 km along mapped paths. The map records nothing about a charge.
- viewing tower2.2 km
- viewing tower2.2 km
- Thuja2.4 km
No bus stop or station is mapped within two kilometres.
Getting to Fin Lough
About these directions
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.
Walking and driving times are estimates. A town search starts at its centre; choose your location or a point on the map for a more precise starting point. Eircode search is not available.
How journey planning worksDestination, access and nearby stops
Fin Lough is in Cootehall, County Roscommon. Routes here end at the stretch of shore a public way reaches, which this site measured on the ground. A car park is recorded 2843 m from the water, about 36 minutes on foot.
The nearest scheduled stop is Ardcarn (14533), 1.6 km away in a straight line. Use the planner to check walking connections for your journey.
- Ardcarn 1.6 km
bus 449Scheduled departures from this stop
- Knockvicar 1.7 km
bus 571Scheduled departures from this stop
- Lough Key Forest Pk 2.0 km
buses 571 and 570Scheduled departures from this stop
- Ardcarn South 2.2 km
bus 449Scheduled departures from this stop
Getting to Cootehall covers the journeys into the town itself.
The nearest other lakes
Ordered by distance from the main access point on the shore, in a straight line, which is the same point and the same measure as the figures beside them.
Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
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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 Figures marked Wikidata come from Q33251961.
- 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.