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- ↑ "Lough Iron". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
- ↑ Lough Iron, Ramsar Information Sheet [ permanent dead link ], wetlands.org
- ↑ Collectanea de rebus hibernicis, Volume 1, L. White: Dublin, 1786. p. 38
- ↑ Collectanea de rebus hibernicis, p. 39
