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County Dublin (shaded dark green) There are more than 130 named rivers and streams in the traditional County Dublin, Ireland, which comprises the city of Dublin and the surrounding counties of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin. Rivers and tributaries The rivers and streams are listed in one table, with systems such as the Liffey (and that of its major sub-system, the Dodder ...
The undisputed leader in the Dublin region is the Liffey, followed by major tributary, the Dodder, and by the Tolka. While others carry a fair volume of water, notably the Wad River system, the Mayne, the Santry and the Poddle, some of the other "rivers" are really just streams and the majority are culverted for some or even all of their lengths.
The Dodder is the main focus of Down the Dodder (Christopher Moriarty, 1998) and The Rivers Dodder and Poddle (McEntee and Corcoran, 2016), and is also discussed in multiple more general books, including The Rivers of Dublin (Sweeney, 1991), and Ten Dozen Waters: The Rivers and Streams of County Dublin (Doyle, 2008 et seq) and other volumes by ...
Dublin is still organised as a county by the Gaelic Athletic Association in the case of Dublin GAA. The Central Statistics Office published a county report from the 2022 census for County Dublin as a whole. [3] County Dublin is a NUTS III statistical region in Ireland, as recognised by the European Union. [4]
Much of the county is drained by its three major rivers – the River Liffey, the River Tolka in north Dublin, and the River Dodder in south Dublin. The Liffey, at 132 kilometres (82 mi) in length, is the 8th longest river in Ireland, and rises near Tonduff in County Wicklow, reaching the Irish Sea at the Dublin Docklands .
The River Liffey (Irish: An Life, historically An Ruirthe(a)ch) is a river in eastern Ireland that ultimately flows through the centre of Dublin to its mouth within Dublin Bay. Its major tributaries include the River Dodder, the River Poddle and the River Camac. The river supplies much of Dublin's water and supports a range of recreational ...
List of rivers of County Dublin This page was last edited on 8 May 2018, at 08:13 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
The Mayne River (Irish: Abhainn na Maighne), [1] is a small watercourse of northern County Dublin. It forms from the merger of the Cuckoo and Turnapin Streams, which rise near Dublin Airport and help drain the airport campus. The river is in the jurisdiction of Fingal County Council and within the oversight of the Environmental Protection Agency.