Mask

Lough Mask lies between the hills of western Connacht and the limestone country to the east. Lough Carra feeds its waters, which pass southward through the limestone toward Lough Corrib. Castles and islands mark shores that were contested by the Burkes and neighbouring Gaelic families. In 1338, during the struggle within the Burke family for control of Connacht, Sir Edmond de Burgh was drowned in the lake by his cousin Edmond Albanach Bourke. Centuries later the scribe Dáibhídh Bacach Ó Duibhgeannáin worked on an island in the lake.