page_title: River Nore
hierarchical_section_title: River Nore
caption_attribution_description: Kilkenny's river
context_page_description: The River Nore is one of the principal rivers in the South-East Region of Ireland. The 140-kilometre-long river drains approximately 2,530 square kilometres of Leinster and Munster, that encompasses parts of three counties. Along with the River Suir and River Barrow, it is one of the constituent rivers of the group known as the Three Sisters.
  Starting in the Devil's Bit Mountain, County Tipperary, the river flows generally southeast, and then south, before its confluence with the River Barrow at Ringwood, and the Barrow railway bridge at Drumdowney, County Kilkenny, which empties into the Celtic Sea at Waterford Harbour, Waterford.
  The long term average flow rate of the River Nore is 42.9 cubic metres per second The river is home to the only known extant population of the critically endangered Nore freshwater pearl mussel, and much of its length is listed as a Special Area of Conservation.
context_section_description: The River Nore (Irish: An Fheoir) is one of the principal rivers (along with the River Suir and River Barrow) in the South-East Region  of Ireland. The 140-kilometre-long (87 mi) river drains approximately 2,530 square kilometres (977 sq mi) of Leinster and Munster, that encompasses parts of three counties (Tipperary, Laois, Kilkenny). Along with the River Suir and River Barrow, it is one of the constituent rivers of the group known as the Three Sisters. 
  Starting in the Devil's Bit Mountain, County Tipperary, the river flows generally southeast, and then south, before its confluence with the River Barrow at Ringwood, and the Barrow railway bridge at Drumdowney, County Kilkenny, which empties into the Celtic Sea at Waterford Harbour, Waterford. 
  The long term average flow rate of the River Nore is 42.9 cubic metres per second (m³/s) The river is home to the only known extant population of the critically endangered Nore freshwater pearl mussel, and much of its length is listed as a Special Area of Conservation.
caption: River Nore in the City of Kilkenny.
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