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The Blackwater, the Bandon and the Lee
- There are three main rivers to County Cork: the Blackwater, the Bandon and the Lee.
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There are three main rivers to County Cork: the Blackwater, the Bandon and the Lee. An interesting fact about these three rivers is that they all flow west to east, each making a sudden right-angle turn to flow south into the sea.
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The geological folding of over 275 million years ago, has created several parallel valleys running west-east that provide the structural guides for Cork’s three main rivers - the Bandon, the Blackwater, and the Lee - as well as shaping the distinct bay-headland shape of the county’s coastline.
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The main rivers that flow through Co. Cork are the Blackwater, the Lee, the Banon and their tributaries. The Blackwater rises near Kingwilliamstown in Kerry, and acts as the boundary between Kerry and Cork for 11 miles.
It rises in the Shehy Mountains on the western border of County Cork and flows eastwards through Cork, where it splits in two for a short distance, creating an island on which Cork's city centre is built, then passing through Cork Harbour on the south coast, one of the largest natural harbours in the world, to empty into the Celtic Sea.
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This is an alphabetical list of the main rivers on the island of Ireland. It includes rivers that flow through the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Rivers that flow through Northern Ireland are marked with an asterisk (*).
The principal river is the Blackwater, which, rising in the mountains on the confines of Kerry, runs southward along the western border of this county to the vicinity of Millstreet, where it suddenly turns eastward, and after a course of many miles, passing Mallow, Fermoy, &c, enters the county of Waterford, after a short course through which ...