Lough Auna
Loch Ána
53.51042, -9.98591
One time when the lake was covered with ice a big animal rose up and broke the ice across the lake he was nearly the length of the lake and was something like a horse. Often an animal like a horse but which has a tail about a perch long is seen in the morning on the shore eating. One day a horse was eating near the lake and the animal came up to him.
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1880s
Local woman describes a horse-eel coming out of the lake was something similar to a horse and it tailed off something like an eel.
1930s
Local man and his mother saw a 30 ft. long creature with 3-4 humps and a set of bristles or mane on its back, possibly running along one of its visible humps.
1963
Tom Joyce a large blue-greyish hump, "sparkling" in the sunlight with a length of seven or eight feet (2-2.5 m) and around two feet (0.6 m), in height.
1967/8
Local man had lost livestock so made a baited trap. Waited by night and heard a loud splash-fired shotgun.
Another man fishing saw something while fishing from a boat- big and black with large round eyes like a dog to the front of its head and a short stump of a nose. It also had short round ears and a short neck.
Two men saw a large 16-17 ft. eel.
1977
A French artist saw a large creature appear on its surface. Bizarrely the creature had two stalk-like eyes.
Tom Joyce and another man saw a 5ft. hump through rifle scope.
A group of people saw a creature from a cottage on the shore. It was 5 ft. long-one person thought they saw a long neck and a head similar to a Labrador dog.
Conclusion
Although Lough Auna is some way from the coast it is quite possible that some form of pinniped, probably a grey seal was repsonsible for several sightings. Lough Auna is too small and shallow to harbour any large creature at around 0.8 by 0.2 miles. Now privately owned land.
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