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Table 1 shows the longest rivers in Ireland with their lengths (in kilometres and miles), the counties they flow through, and their catchment areas (in square kilometres). Table 2 shows the largest rivers in Ireland (by mean flow) in cubic metres per second. Some of the larger or better-known rivers of Ireland are shown on this map (large version).
TABLE 1. a. The length of the River Shannon from the Shannon Pot to Limerick City is 258 kilometres (160 mi) [10] with a basin area of 11,700 km 2.; The River Shannon's overall length (to Loop Head), using the Owenmore River (County Cavan) as source, is 372 kilometres (231 mi), [11] 11 km (7 mi) longer than the Shannon Pot source.
The Shannon River Basin consists of the area containing Ireland's longest river, the River Shannon, and all of its tributaries and lakes. The official Ordnance Survey Ireland length of the Shannon from its Shannon Pot source is 224 miles (360 km) made up of 63.5 miles (102.2 km) tidal water flow and 160.5 miles (258.3 km) freshwater flow.
The river runs through or between 11 of Ireland's counties, subsuming the tributary rivers Boyle, Inny, Suck, Mulkear and Brosna, among others, before reaching the Shannon Estuary at Limerick. The Shannon Pot, the traditional source of the river. Many different values have been given for the length of the Shannon.
The King's River (Irish: Abhainn Rí) is a river in Ireland that flows through the counties of Tipperary and Kilkenny. [1] It is part of the Nore catchment area [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and is a tributary of the River Nore .
The Blackwater or Munster Blackwater (Irish: An Abhainn Mhór, The Great River) is a river which flows through counties Kerry, Cork and Waterford in Ireland. It rises in the Mullaghareirk Mountains in County Kerry and then flows in an easterly direction across County Cork through the towns of Mallow and Fermoy.
The town of Enniskillen is mostly situated on an island in the river, between Upper and Lower Lough Erne. It is linked to the River Shannon by the Shannon–Erne Waterway. The total catchment area of the River Erne is 4,372 km 2. [4] The long-term average rate of the River Erne is 101.7 cubic metres per second (m 3 /s). [4]
Kenmare River: Cork, Kerry 43267.5 IE0002158: Killarney National Park, MacGillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment Cork, Kerry 76444.99 IE0000365: Kilkeran Lake and Castlefreke Dunes: Cork 96.43 IE0001061: Lough Hyne Nature Reserve and Environs: Cork 450.94 IE0000097: Myross Wood: Cork 3.97 IE0001070: Reen Point Shingle: Cork 7.01 IE0002281