Camloch

Camlough takes its name from the Irish elements cam (crooked) and loch (lake), referring to the lake that remains a defining feature of the landscape. The settlement lies in the barony of Upper Orior within Killevy civil parish. The district was anciently part of the O'Hanlon territory during the Gaelic Irish period. During the Ulster Plantation of the early seventeenth century, one thousand a...