Qualla: Lough Currane https://qualla.com/lough-currane en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/y/lough-currane-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Lough Currane https://qualla.com/lough-currane Lough Currane: Introduction https://qualla.com/lough-currane/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. Lough Currane is a Kerry lake with two sides to it. On the surface, it is a fly-fisher's lough - 2,500 acres of dark water, 3.5 miles long, with a population of wild Atlantic salmon and sea trout famous enough that anglers fly in from around the world to chase them. Below the surface, it is older. The lake fills a glacial basin scoured out at the end of the last ice age, drains west into Ballinskelligs Bay via the short Currane River, and contains an island called Church Island where a 7th-century saint built a monastery whose ruins are still standing. Stand on the shore at Waterville and look east across the water, and you are looking at most of Irish history compressed into one view.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/y/lough-currane-wp/gc0y-lough-currane-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Lough Currane: The Lake and the Sea https://qualla.com/lough-currane/ Photo credit Richard Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0. Lough Currane is technically a freshwater lake, but it sits so close to the Atlantic that the connection is almost visible. The town of Waterville lies on a narrow isthmus between the lough's western shore and Ballinskelligs Bay, with the short Currane River - barely more than a ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/y/lough-currane-wp/gc0y-lough-currane-the-lake-and-the-sea.mp3 0:06 2 full Lough Currane: St Finan Cam's Island https://qualla.com/lough-currane/ Photo credit Richard Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0. Church Island lies near the eastern end of the lough, and on it stand the ruins of an Early Medieval monastery. Tradition associates the foundation with St Finan Cam - 'Finan the Crooked', for reasons no one quite remembers - who lived around the 7th century and is one of the les...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/y/lough-currane-wp/gc0y-lough-currane-st-finan-cams-island.mp3 0:06 3 full Lough Currane: Glenmore and the Stones https://qualla.com/lough-currane/ Photo credit Richard Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0. The townlands along the lough's southern bank - Cappamore, Eightercua, Gortnamackanee and others - are collectively known as Glenmore, the big valley. Eightercua is the site of a Bronze Age stone alignment, four standing stones aligned east to west, possibly 3,700 years old, poss...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/y/lough-currane-wp/gc0y-lough-currane-glenmore-and-the-stones.mp3 0:06 4 full Lough Currane: The Decision to Stop Keeping the Catch https://qualla.com/lough-currane/ Photo credit Richard Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0. For most of the 20th century, Lough Currane was a place to come and take fish home. Sea trout especially - the bigger the better. Then, sometime in the 1990s and 2000s, the runs started to fail. Sea lice from open-cage salmon farms in the bays of south-west Ireland, including the...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/y/lough-currane-wp/gc0y-lough-currane-the-decision-to-stop-keeping-the-catch.mp3 0:06 5 full Lough Currane: Why People Keep Coming https://qualla.com/lough-currane/ Photo credit Richard Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Ring of Kerry brings tour buses past Lough Currane every day in summer. Most of them do not stop. The lake is not on the standard postcard circuit - it does not have the immediate drama of the Skellig Islands or the photogenic violence of the cliffs at Slea Head. What it has ...

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