Key facts
- Etymology
- Old Irish : Eoir
- Native name
- An Fheoir ( Irish )
- State
- Republic of Ireland
- Region
- Leinster
- Counties
- Tipperary , Laois , Kilkenny , Waterford
- Source
- Devil's Bit Mountain
- Location
- County Tipperary
- Mouth
- River Barrow
- Length
- 140 km (87 mi)
- Basin size
- 2,595 km (1,002 sq mi)
- Average
- 42.9 m /s (1,510 cu ft/s)
- River system
- Three Sisters
- Left
- River Suir
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Encyclopedic overview
The River Nore (Irish: An Fheoir [ə ˈn̠ʲoːɾʲ]) is one of the principal rivers (along with the River Suir and River Barrow) in the South-East Region of Ireland. The 140-kilometre-long (87 mi) river drains approximately 2,530 square kilometres (977 mi) of Leinster and Munster, that encompasses parts of three counties: Tipperary, Laois and Kilkenny. Along with the Suir and the Barrow, it is one of the Three Sisters group of rivers.
Starting in the Devil's Bit Mountain, County Tipperary, the river flows generally southeast, and then south, before its confluence with the River Barrow at Ringwood, and the Barrow railway bridge at Drumdowney, County Kilkenny, which empties into the Celtic Sea at Waterford Harbour.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “River Nore” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.