The Lough
An Loch
The Lough covers 6 ha with 940 m of shore in County Cork, 1.4 km north-east of Cork.
A public road or path on the map comes within 1 m of the shore, along about 800 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
- 940 m around the outline
- County
- County Cork
- In Irish
- An Loch
- 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 The 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 Cork.
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 140 m away, and the walk from it to the shore is 950 m along mapped paths. The map records nothing about a charge.
- An unnamed viewpoint1.6 km
- City View Summit2.0 km
- Shandon Bells View2.0 km
- Vernon Mount View2.1 km
- Lough Rd (Opposite Cork Lough Park)30 m
- An unnamed stop110 m
- Lough Road (Greenmount Ave Junction)240 m
- Lough Rd250 m
Getting to The 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
The Lough is in Cork, County Cork. Routes here end at the stretch of shore a public way reaches, which this site measured on the ground. A car park is recorded 948 m from the water, about 12 minutes on foot.
The nearest scheduled stop is Westbourne Terrace (243201), 30 m away in a straight line. Use the planner to check walking connections for your journey.
- Westbourne Terrace 30 m
bus 214Scheduled departures from this stop
- Valentine Villas 100 m
bus 214Scheduled departures from this stop
- The Lough 250 m
bus 214Scheduled departures from this stop
- Lough Road 330 m
bus 214Scheduled departures from this stop
- Denroche's Cross 340 m
bus 216Scheduled departures from this stop
Getting to Cork 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.
Tim Sheerman-Chase, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Questions people ask
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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 Q33241055.
- 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.