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)
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Waterford 02.jpg
- Length
- 184
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- Commons category
- River Suir
- watershed area
- 3526
- native label
- An tSiúir
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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.
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