Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh & “Bally”

Lough Neagh (pronounced lokh nay) is Britain’s and Ireland’s largest freshwater lake at 151 square miles of surface area. It is famous for its world’s finest tasting eels. The prefix “Bally” before a village name means “place of” ei: Ballycastle, Ballymoney. The greatest number of villages with this prefix are in Northern Ireland. Pictured above is a wild fowlers’ (bird hunter’s) hide on this lake, Lough Neagh. By the way, if you don’t think you would like eels for dinner, trout, salmon and perch also call Lough Neagh home.