turlough

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Raftery didn't see him, being blind; and he brought him to Killeenan at last, and he said: "Where can the rogue go now, unless he'll swim the turlough?"

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  1. In Ireland, a temporary pond or lake in certain limestone districts. Some [sluggas] are abrupt deep holes, others open into shallow hollows; and when the water during floods rises in the latter, it overflows the adjoining lands, forming the turloughs, which are usually lakes in winter and callows in summer. Kinahan, Geol. of Ireland, p. 325.

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  1. from Irish turloch, a dry lake, from tur, bare, dry, + loch, lake: see lough.
 

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