The River Shannon is the longest river in Ireland at 360.5 km. It drains the Shannon River Basin which has an area of one fifth of the area of Ireland; the Shannon divides the west of Ireland from the south. County Clare, being part of the province of Munster, is the major exception; the river represents a major physical barrier between east and west, with fewer than thirty-five crossing-points between Limerick city in the south and the village of Dowra in the north. The river is named after a Celtic goddess; the Shannon has been an important waterway since antiquity, having first been mapped by the Graeco-Egyptian geographer Ptolemy. The river flows southwards from the Shannon Pot in County Cavan before turning west and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean through the 102.1 km long Shannon Estuary. Limerick city stands at the point; the Shannon is tidal east of Limerick as far as the base of the Ardnacrusha dam. By tradition the Shannon is said to rise in the Shannon Pot, a small pool in the townland of Derrylahan on the slopes of Cuilcagh Mountain in County Cavan, from where the young river appears as a small trout stream.
Surveys have defined a 12.8 km2 immediate pot catchment area covering the slopes of Cuilcagh. This area includes Cavan, 2.2 km to the northeast, drained by Pollnaowen. Further sinks that source the pot include Pollboy and, through Shannon Cave, Pollahune in Cavan and Polltullyard and Tullynakeeragh in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland; the highest point in the catchment is a spring at Tiltinbane on the western end of the Cuilcagh mountain ridge. From the Shannon Pot, the river subsumes a number of tributaries before replenishing Lough Allen at its head; the river runs through or between 11 of Ireland's counties, subsuming the tributary rivers Boyle, Suck and Brosna, among others, before reaching the Shannon Estuary at Limerick. Many different values have been given for the length of the Shannon. A traditional value is 390 km. An official Irish source gives a total length of 360.5 km. Most Irish guides now give 344 km; some academic sources give 280 km. The reason is; the 344 km length relates to the distance between Shannon Pot and a line between Kerry Head and Loop Head, the furthest reaches of the land.
The 280 km distance finishes where the Shannon estuary joins the estuary of the River Fergus, close to Shannon Airport. Longer distances emerged before the use of modern surveying instruments. At a total length of 360.5 km, this means. That the Shannon is the longest river in either Ireland or Great Britain was evidently known in the 12th century, although a map of the time showed this river as flowing out of the south of Ireland. There are some tributaries within the Shannon River Basin which have headwaters that are further in length than the Shannon Pot source's length of 360.5 km, such as the Owenmore River, total length 372 km in County Cavan and the Boyle River, total length 392.1 km with its source in Mayo. The River Shannon is a traditional freshwater river for about 45% of its total length. Excluding the 102 km tidal estuary from its total length of 360 km, if one excludes the lakes from the Shannon's freshwater flow of 258 km, the Shannon, as a freshwater river, is only about 161 km long.
Apart from being Ireland's longest river, the Shannon is by far, Ireland's largest river by flow. It has a long term average flow rate of 208.1 m3/s. This is double the flow rate of Ireland's second largest river, the River Corrib (104.8 m3/s. If the discharges from all of the rivers and streams into the Shannon Estuary are added to the discharge at Limerick, the total discharge of the River Shannon at its mouth at Loop Head reaches 300 m3/s. Indeed, the Shannon is a major river by the time it leaves Lough Ree with an average flow rate of 98 m3/s, larger than any of the other Irish rivers' total flow; the Shannon Callows, areas of lowland along the river, are classified as a Special Area of Conservation. Settlements along the river include Kilrush, Glin, Askeaton, Shannon Town, Castletroy, Castleconnell, O'Briensbridge, Killaloe, Portumna, Athlone, Carrick-on-Shannon, Leitrim village and Dowra; the river began flowing along its present course after the end of the last glacial period. Ptolemy's Geography described a river called Σηνος from PIE *sai-/sei- ‘to bind’, the root of English sinew and Irish sin ‘collar’, referring to the long and sinuous estuary leading up to Limerick.
According to Irish mythology, the river was named after a woman named Sionann, the granddaughter of Lir. She went to Connla's Well to find wisdom, despite being warned no
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