River
River Nore
140 km from source to mouth · Ireland.
IrelandFlows into Barrow5th longest in Ireland
In numbers
Length
140km
Average flow
51m³/s
Basin
2,350km²
Drop
97m
from 97 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
140 km of river and 17 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmDevil's Bitat 97 m
- 17 kmMountrath1,661 people
- 31 kmPoorman's Bridge
- 46 kmTallyho Bridge
- 51 kmRiver Erkinatributary
- 56 kmBallyragget1,082 people
- 63 kmInchmore Bridge
- 67 kmThreecastles Bridge
- 80 kmGreens Brige (site of)
- 80 kmGreen's Bridge
- 80 kmKilkenny21,589 people
- 81 kmJohn's Bridge (site of)
- 94 kmBennetsbridge old bridge
- 102 kmBallylinch Bridge
- 106 kmKings Rivertributary
- 109 kmThomastown Railway Viaduct
- 111 kmThomastown2,445 people
- 119 kmBrownsbarn Bridge
- 140 kmBarrowat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Ireland
At the mouth it carries 51 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 49 seconds. It drops from 97 m to 0 m, 0.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,350 km², about the size of RE. 94,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to January. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- KilkennyLargest city on its banks · 21,589 people
- Dublin Airport (DUB)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 109 km from the cityCar hire at DUB airport (Dublin)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water4 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
River Nore, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 20 m³/s in the lowest month to 89 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
River Nore: the basin in numbers
2,464 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 94,000people live in the basin
- 38/km²people per km²
- 136maverage altitude of the basin
- 928mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.9°Caverage air temperature
What covers the basin
- 1% Forest
- 21% Cropland
- 56% Pasture
- 1% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
River Nore: what you find on the way
- 23Weirs
- 5Waterfalls
- 4Boat rampsThe Big Net and 3 more
- 1River beachesBishopsmeadows Swimming Area
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
River Nore in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
9mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (9)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Devil's Bit7.5 km away478m
- Latteragh12 km away · prominence 90 m373m
- Benduff4.4 km away
- Borrisnoe Mountain4.9 km away
- Kilduff Mountain6.0 km away
- Knockahilligan9.1 km away
- Knockanora12 km away
- Black Hill9.8 km away
1 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
River Nore in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
BarrowIreland192 km110 m³/sTributaries (5)
Also: Kings River, River Goul, River Erkina, Breagagh River, Nuenna
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Ireland184 km88 m³/s18 km awayRiver SlaneyIreland117 km40 m³/s32 km awayRiver ShannonIreland368 km200 m³/s123 km awayMunster BlackwaterIreland168 km89 m³/s78 km awayLiffeyIreland125 km14 m³/s115 km awayLeeIreland90 km45 m³/s121 km awayRiver BoyneIreland112 km46 m³/s153 km awayRiver Dee
United Kingdom110 km30 m³/s276 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1048506) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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