Video: Nature plays hide and seek: Loughareema, or the Vanishing Lake, in Ireland
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
We all know that it is better to admire mountain rivers in spring, when they become seething and full-flowing from the melting snow, but in summer many of them are more like drying up streams. It turns out that in the absence of rain, not only rivers but also lakes can disappear. If you are lucky enough to go to the Irish city of Balicastle after the showers have passed here, then, before reaching a few kilometers, you will see a picturesque Lake Loughareema … However, remember that its second name is Disappearing lake, because after a while the water goes underground, and nothing reminds of a body of water.
Such natural changes played a cruel joke with the architects who designed the first road to Balikaslu. It was built ineptly, and during the rains, the lake flooded the path, so that communication with the city was "blocked" for several weeks. True, the modern road is built taking into account the "whims" of Lake Loughareema, it is built above the level of the lake and fenced off by walls to avoid flooding.
One mystical story is also connected with the lake. Back in 1898, a certain Colonel John Magee McNeille, in order to catch a three-hour train, ordered his cabman to go straight across the lake, since the road was just flooded. In the middle of the lake, the horses became nervous from the cold water, reared, and the cart overturned, which led to the death of people. Old-timers assure that since then from time to time on the shore of the lake you can see a ghost that looks like a military man.
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