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2 unusual facts about River Suir


River Suir

Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) 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 accurate spelling and the most phonetically correct of the period.

Near the Port of Waterford it meets the River Barrow at Cheekpoint to form a wide navigable estuary, capable of accommodating seagoing vessels up to 32,000 tons dwt.


John Dardis

The governmented then established an Independent Salmon Group to review policy, and the group's report in October 2006 recommended radical measures to halt "the catastrophic decline of Irish salmon stocks", including both a ban drift nets and on angling for salmon in major rivers including the Liffey, Boyne, Barrow, Nore and Suir.

River Drish

It is a tributary of River Suir, which it joins at Turtulla, just over 1½ km (about 1 mile) southeast of the town of Thurles.


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Margaret Maher

Margaret was born on 25 February 1841 in Killusty, a townland in a region of South Tipperary, Ireland, known as the Golden Vale of the River Suir.