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Lough Neagh

Loch nEathach

Lough Neagh covers 381 km² with 190.9 km of shore, 49.6 km south-west of Emyvale.

Getting to the water

A public road or path on the map comes within 5 m of the shore, along about 1.1 km of it, and there are 3 more stretches like it elsewhere on the shore. 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.

381 km²
of water
190.9 km
of shore
4
stretches of shore a way reaches
Area
381 km² measured from the mapped outline
Shore
190.9 km around the outline
Published area
392 km2 Wikidata
Greatest depth
25 m Wikidata
Height
16 m above sea level Wikidata
Flows in
River Bann
Flows out
River Bann
County
Not established
In Irish
Loch nEathach
Public access
A public way reaches the shoreMeasured from the map, not from a statement of permission
On the map
OpenStreetMap record
Lough Neagh
Lough Neagh·Spockyippee, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Lough Neagh·Spockyippee, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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 the county.

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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.

Parking

An unnamed car park is 140 m away, and the walk from it to the shore is 160 m along mapped paths. The map records nothing about a charge.

Viewpoints

None mapped within 2.5 km.

Nearest stops

No bus stop or station is mapped within two kilometres.

Getting to Lough Neagh

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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

Lough Neagh is in Emyvale, County Monaghan. Routes here end at the stretch of shore a public way reaches, which this site measured on the ground. A car park is recorded 155 m from the water, about 2 minutes on foot.

Emyvale is the nearest settlement, 49.6 km south-west of the lake. Arriving in Emyvale 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

No scheduled stop was found within 2.5 km of Lough Neagh. On-demand services may not be included.

Getting to Emyvale covers the journeys into the town itself.

Questions people ask

Can you walk to Lough Neagh?
A public road or path comes within 5 m of the shore, along about 1.1 km of it. That is what the map shows; it is not a statement of permission, which the map does not record.
How big is Lough Neagh?
381 km², with 190.9 km of shore, measured from the outline OpenStreetMap holds. Wikidata publishes 392 km2, which is a different measurement rather than a correction of this one.
Where can you park for Lough Neagh?
A car park is 140 m away, and the walk from it to the shore is 160 m along mapped paths.
How do you get to Lough Neagh without a car?
No scheduled bus or train in the national timetable reaches Emyvale, the nearest settlement.

Where this comes from

The lake itself
The outline, the name and the identifiers are OpenStreetMap records. Correct it there Figures marked Wikidata come from Q206942.
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.