Suir
Sign in to saveAlso known as River Suir, Suir River, R. Suir, Suir R., Sure, Sure River, Sure R., River Sure
river in Ireland
Key facts
- Etymology
- Old Irish siur , "sister"
- Native name
- Abhainn na Siúire ( Irish )
- Country
- Ireland
- Counties
- Tipperary , Waterford , Kilkenny
- Source
- Devil's Bit Mountain
- Location
- Templemore , County Tipperary
- Coordinates
- 52°49′16″N 7°54′50″W / 52.821°N 7.914°W / 52.821; -7.914
- Elevation
- 480 m (1,570 ft)
- Mouth
- Waterford Harbour
- Length
- 185 km (115 mi)
- Basin size
- 1,394 sq mi (3,610 km )
- Average
- 76.9 m /s (2,720 cu ft/s)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The River Suir (/ʃʊər/ SHOOR; Irish: an tSiúir [ənʲ ˈtʲuːɾˠ] or Abhainn na Siúire [ˌəun̠ʲ n̪ˠə ˈʃuːɾʲə]) is a river in Ireland that flows into the Celtic Sea through Waterford after a distance of 185 kilometres (115 mi). The catchment area of the Suir is 3,610 km. Its long-term average flow rate is 76.9 cubic metres per second (m/s), about twice the flow of either the River Barrow (37.4 m/s) or the River Nore (42.9 m/s) before these join, but a little less than the Barrow's flow when it meets the Suir 20 km downstream (over 80 m/s).
Popular with anglers, it abounds in brown trout and salmon. Although 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 has been the case in many other Atlantic rivers, salmon stocks have been in decline in recent years.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Suir” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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