Editing Lough Mask (section)

==History==
In 1338 [[Edmond de Burgh|Sir Edmond de Burgh]] was drowned in the lake by his cousin Sir Edmond Albanach Bourke of [[County Mayo]], at the end of the [[Burke Civil War]] (1333–1338). He was captured at [[Ballinrobe]] and taken to Oilean-an-lara (the Earls Island) where he was killed.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}

According to a side-note on the manuscript containing the oldest copy of [[The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne|'Tóruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne' ("The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne")]] (Royal Irish Academy Ms. 24.P.9), Irish scribe [[Daibhidh Ó Duibhgheannáin|Dáibhídh Bacach ("lame David") Ó Duibhgeannáin]] was living and working on ''Oileán Ruadh'' ('Red Island') on Lough Mask in the house of Tadhg Og O Flaherty on 1 April 1651.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

The "[[Lough Mask Murders]]" of 1882 were a notorious incident in the [[Land War]] in which a grandfather and grandson acting as [[bailiff]]s were killed by tenant farmers and their bodies dumped in the lake.<ref>{{cite book|last=Simonsen|first=Mary Lydon|title=A Murderer's Country: Joyce County, Galway, During Ireland's Land War (1879–1882)|date=18 June 2017 |publisher=Quail Creek Publishing|isbn=9780692910610}}</ref>