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The River Fergus (Irish: An Forghas) [3] is a river within the Shannon River Basin which flows in County Clare, Ireland. The river begins at Lough Fergus in north Clare and flows into the Shannon Estuary. The source is at Lough Fergus in the townland of Kilmore North. [4] At Knockroe, the river is joined by a tributary stream called the ...
Knockalisheen Stream, also named Ballycannan Stream, Shannon tributary. [32] Mill Stream, Newmarket-upon-Fergus. [33] Mill River, near O'Callaghan's Mills, Kilgory Lough to Doon Lough. [34] Moyarta River, Shannon tributary, Loop Head Peninsula to Carrigaholt [35] Moyree River, Fergus tributary, from County Galway through Dromore Lake
If the discharges from all of the rivers and streams into the Shannon Estuary (including the rivers Feale 34.6 m 3 /s [1,220 cu ft/s], Maigue 15.6 m 3 /s [550 cu ft/s], Fergus 25.7 m 3 /s [910 cu ft/s], and Deel 7.4 m 3 /s [260 cu ft/s]) [19] [20] are added to the discharge at Limerick, the total discharge of the River Shannon at its mouth at ...
The parish lies on the east border of the barony of Clonderalaw.It is 7 by 4 miles (11.3 by 6.4 km) and covers 12,859 acres (5,204 ha). It includes islands in the Fergus and Shannon Estuary, land along the western seaboard of the Fergus estuary and moor-covered uplands.
Shannon (Irish: Sionainn) or Shannon Town (Baile na Sionnainne), named after the river near which it stands, is a town in County Clare, Ireland. It was given town status on 1 January 1982. The town is located just off the N19 road, a spur of the N18/M18 road between Limerick and Ennis.
The third-busiest airport in Ireland is located in Clare with the Shannon Airport, which officially opened in 1945. [54] Along with Dublin Airport and Cork Airport it is one of the three primary airports in the country, handling 3.62 million passengers in 2007. Shannon was the first airport in Ireland to receive transatlantic flights. [54]
During the historical peak of commercial activity at the port, the complicated approaches to Clarecastle from the estuaries of the Shannon and Fergus, arising from issues such as limited depth for navigation exacerbated by the presence of estuarine intertidal mudflats and rhythmites, necessitated the use of maritime pilots and precluded very ...
If the discharges from all of the rivers and streams into the Shannon Estuary (including the rivers Feale 34.6m 3 /s, Maigue 15.6m 3 /s, Fergus 25.7m 3 /s, and Deel 7.4m 3 /s) [19] [22] are added to the discharge at Limerick giving a total catchment of 16,865 km 2, the total discharge of the River Shannon at its mouth at Loop Head reaches 300 m ...