Colligan River
river in Ireland
The Colligan River (Irish: Abhainn Choilligeáin) is a fast-flowing river in Ireland, flowing through County Waterford. It is reputed to be one of the fastest in Europe.
Course
The Colligan River rises in the Monavullagh Mountains, flows southwards under the Scart Bridge, passes under the N72 at Kildangan, and then turns eastwards into a wide estuary at Dungarvan. It is bridged by the N25 (The Bypass) and R911 (The Causeway) before entering the Celtic Sea.
Recreation
The Colligan River is a noted salmon and trout fishery. It is also used for whitewater kayaking.
Parish
Colligan gives its name to a civil parish northeast of Dungarvan in the barony of Decies-without-Drum. There was formerly a roughly coterminous Catholic parish in the Diocese of Waterford and Lismore, which gave its name to Colligan–Emmets GAA club. The Catholic parish was later merged with Kilgobinet parish.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Colligan River” as river in Ireland. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as river in Ireland. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 22, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q28232583. Authority coordinates are 52.214, -7.600. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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This entry incorporates text from “Colligan River” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.