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[[File:Derry from the International Space Station 2013-03-17.jpg|thumb|View from the International Space Station: [[Derry]] and the [[Ulster]] coastline, with Lough Swilly to the west and [[Lough Foyle]] and [[Inishowen]] to the north of the city]]
'''Lough Swilly''' ({{Irish place name|Loch Súilí|
==Name==
Both Lough Swilly ({{lang-ga|Loch Súilí}}) and the adjoining [[River Swilly]] ({{lang|ga|An tSúileach}}){{sfn|Mills|2011|p=446}} have the same derivation,<ref>{{Cite tweet |author= Northern Ireland Place-Name Project |user=placenamesni |number=1423669193291993095 |title=Lough Swilly takes its name from the Swilly River in Donegal. It has its origins in the Irish name An tSúileach 'the one with eyes' }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.logainm.ie/111276.aspx | publisher = Placenames Database of Ireland | title = Loch Súilí / Lough Swilly (see archival records) | accessdate = 22 December 2023 }}</ref>{{sfn|Joyce|1900|p=440}} and are sometimes associated with a legendary multi-eyed [[sea monster]], ''Suileach'', that was reputedly killed by [[Columba|Saint Colmcille]] (521–597).{{sfn|MacKillop|2004}}{{sfn|Donegal County Council}} In ''The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places'' (1900), the historian [[Patrick Weston Joyce]] writes that ''súil'' may refer to whirlpools or to eyes and that ''suileach'' means "abounding in eyes or whirlpools".{{sfn|Joyce|1900|p=440}}
==Geography and ecology==
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* {{cite book|title=Inishowen: Paintings and Stories from the Land of Eoghan|first1 = Seán |last1 = Beattie |first2 = Martin |last2 = Lynch| year = 2000 | publisher = Dundurn | isbn = 9781900935173 }}
* {{cite web | title = The Role of Lough Swilly in WW1 | url = https://fanadlighthouse.com/the-role-of-lough-swilly-in-ww1/ | first = Deirdre | last = Friel | publisher = Fanad Lighthouse | year = 2015 | access-date = 7 November 2018 | archive-date = 7 April 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190407072130/https://fanadlighthouse.com/the-role-of-lough-swilly-in-ww1/ | url-status = dead }}
* {{cite book | chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/originhistoryofi02joyc/page/440/mode/2up?q=suileach | chapter = Size ; Shape | title = The origin and history of Irish names of places | date = 1900 | first = Patrick Weston | last = Joyce | authorlink = Patrick Weston Joyce | page = 440 | quote = In some parts of the country it [súil] is applied to a whirlpool in a river ; and in this sense it has given name to the river Swilly in Donegal, which is called in the Annals, suileach, i. e. abounding in eyes or whirlpools. The river gave name to Lough Swilly}}
* {{cite book|title=Castles and fortifications in Ireland, 1485–1945 | isbn=1898256128 |first=Paul M. |last=Kerrigan |year=1995 |publisher=Collins Press}}
* {{cite book|title=The Lough Swilly Archaeological Survey: Investigations Into the Neolithic Transition in Eastern Donegal, Ireland, Volume 1 |first = Michael J. | last = Kimball | publisher = University of Wisconsin, Madison | year = 1998 }}
* {{cite web|title = Sweeping swiftly over Swilly | url = https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/travel/sweeping-swiftly-over-swilly-1.603180 | last = Pierce | first = Seán | publisher = Irish Times | website = irishtimes.com | year = 2011 }}
* {{cite book | title = A Dictionary of British Place-Names | first = David |last = Mills | date = 2011 | publisher = | isbn = 9780199609086 | page = 446 | quote = Swilly (Súileach) ( river ) Donegal. Suileach 1258. 'Seeing one'. The name probably has supernatural connotations }}
* {{cite book | chapter-url = https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100541293?d=%2F10.1093%2Foi%2Fauthority.20110803100541293&p=emailA0n9r0%2FOfKlTk | chapter = Suileach | title = A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology | first = James | last = MacKillop |publisher = Oxford University Press | date = 2004 | isbn = 9780198609674 | quote = Suileach [..] Multi-eyed, eponymous sea-monster of Lough Swilly (Co. Donegal) thought to have been dispatched by St Colum Cille (521–95) }}
* {{cite book|title=We Own Laurentic | isbn=9781523742080 |first=Jack |last=Scoltock |year=2016 |publisher=CreateSpace | quote = ''[Laurentic] was mined at the mouth of Lough Swilly, Ireland in 1917. It sank in forty metres of water with the loss of 354 men. From 1917 to 1921 royal navy divers salvaged over 3,000 gold bars'' }}
* {{cite web|title = Map Sheds New Light on Hundreds of Inishowen Shipwrecks | url = http://www.donegaldaily.com/2018/05/09/map-sheds-new-light-on-hundreds-of-inishowen-shipwrecks/ | first = Stephen | last = Maguire | publisher = Donegal Daily | year = 2018 }}
* {{cite journal|title=Two Irish Loughs |journal = Redan: Journal of the Palmerston Forts Society|last = Stevenson | first = Ian | year = 1995 | place = Gosport }}
* {{cite web | url = https://www.donegalcoco.ie/flexviewers/images/LKNYMS/SMB.pdf | publisher = Donegal County Council | title = Reimagining Letterkenny Market Square | ref = {{harvid|Donegal County Council}} | quote = The River Swilly [..] takes its name from Suileach (sharp sighted), a man eating water monster known for its many eyes and immense size}}
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