Landforms of County Kilkenny - Rivers of County Kilkenny, River Suir, River Nore, the Three Sisters, Castlecomer Plateau, River Goul, Kings River (Paperback)

Chapters: Rivers of County Kilkenny, River Suir, River Nore, the Three Sisters, Castlecomer Plateau, River Goul, Kings River. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The River Suir (Irish pronunciation:, Irish An tSir or Abhainn na Siire) is a river in Ireland that flows into the Atlantic Ocean near Waterford after a distance of 184 kilometres (114 miles).The total catchment area is 3,526km2. Popular with anglers, it holds plentiful reserves of brown trout. While the Suir holds the record for a salmon taken from an Irish river, (weighing 57 lb/26 kg, taken on a fly in 1874) as is the case in many other Atlantic rivers, salmon stocks have been in decline in recent years. Rising on the slopes of Devil's Bit Mountain, just north of Templemore in County Tipperary, the Suir flows south through Loughmore, Thurles, Holycross, Golden and Knockgraffon. Merging with the River Aherlow at Kilmoyler and further on with the Tar, it turns east at the Comeragh Mountains, forming the border between County Waterford and County Kilkenny. It then passes through Cahir, Clonmel and Carrick-on-Suir before reaching Waterford. Here, it meets the River Barrow and the River Nore to form a wide navigable estuary, capable of accommodating seagoing vessels. Together with the Nore and the Barrow, the river is one of the trio known as The Three Sisters. The Suir is known in Irish as the Sir and it is thought the present spelling in English with the u and i reversed is due to a mistake. Some people therefore feel that the spelling in English should be Siur and this spelling is occasionally seen.. Edmund Spenser (15521599) author of the The Fairie Queene, in his writings during the Elizabethan age while domiciled in County Cork, referred to the 'gentle Shure', probable a most accur...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=933378