The Blackwater River or Kerry Blackwater is a river in County Kerry, southwestern Ireland. It is not to be confused with the much longer Munster Blackwater, which also rises in County Kerry.
A Special Area of Conservation, protects most of the basin of the Blackwater River. This is one of the areas in which the rare Kerry Slug is known to occur.
A blackwater river is a type of a river with a deep, slow-moving channel flowing through forested swamps or wetlands. As vegetation decays, tannins leach into the water, making a transparent, acidic water that is darkly stained, resembling tea or black coffee. Most major blackwater rivers are in the Amazon Basin and the Southern United States. The term is used in fluvial studies, geology, geography, ecology, and biology. Not all dark rivers are blackwater in that technical sense. Some rivers in temperate regions, which drain or flow through areas of dark black loam, are simply black due to the color of the soil; these rivers are black mud rivers. There are also black mud estuaries.
Blackwater rivers are lower in nutrients than whitewater rivers and have ionic concentrations higher than rainwater. The unique conditions lead to flora and fauna that differ both from whitewater and clearwater rivers. Where the water types combine is attractive to a diverse group of organisms. The classification of Amazonian rivers into black, clear and whitewater was first proposed by Alfred Russel Wallace in 1853.
The Blackwater River is a 79.3-mile-long (127.6km)tributary of the Lamine River in west-central Missouri in the United States. Via the Lamine and Missouri rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. The Blackwater River was named from the character of its banks and water. The Blackwater River is 16 miles longer than the Lamine River, of which it is a tributary.
Course
The Blackwater River is formed by short north and south forks in Johnson County about 6 miles (10km) northwest of Warrensburg and flows generally east-northeastwardly through Johnson, Pettis, Saline and Cooper counties, past the towns of Sweet Springs and Blackwater. It flows into the Lamine River in northwestern Cooper County, about 4 miles (6.4km) southeast of Blackwater.
The North Fork of the Blackwater starts as one to three springs in the southwestern corner of Lafayette County near the small village of Chapel Hill, about 7 miles (11km) south of Bates City and about 29 miles (47km) southeast of Kansas City.
Blackwater Pier Kenmare C.O. kerry Ireland. Fishing Spot and boat launch. Sunny June 2024.
published: 12 Jun 2024
River Blackwater
River Blackwater Co.Kerry, Ireland
published: 25 Sep 2018
Waiting for rain in Kerry
Atlantic salmon sensing rain is not far away.
Home after their epic journey from the Norwegian Sea.
published: 07 Jul 2021
Salmon Watch - Project Video
Salmon Watch Ireland during 2021 launched a program of video inspection of three locations within Kenmare Bay, County Kerry to ascertain if sea trout were returning to rivers with abnormal high sea lice infestation rates. The three locations examined were the Kerry Blackwater, Sneem River and Waterville.
published: 20 Nov 2021
BLACKWATER WAY - KILLAVULLEN FOREST
published: 18 Jul 2021
Salmon fishing in IRELAND co.kerry
published: 18 Jan 2014
Guide to salmon Fishing in Sneem Kerry County
Guide to the two salmon rivers, Sneem River and the Kerry Blackwater
Where to get licenses and permits and allowed angling methods
Salmon Watch Ireland during 2021 launched a program of video inspection of three locations within Kenmare Bay, County Kerry to ascertain if sea trout were retu...
Salmon Watch Ireland during 2021 launched a program of video inspection of three locations within Kenmare Bay, County Kerry to ascertain if sea trout were returning to rivers with abnormal high sea lice infestation rates. The three locations examined were the Kerry Blackwater, Sneem River and Waterville.
Salmon Watch Ireland during 2021 launched a program of video inspection of three locations within Kenmare Bay, County Kerry to ascertain if sea trout were returning to rivers with abnormal high sea lice infestation rates. The three locations examined were the Kerry Blackwater, Sneem River and Waterville.
Salmon Watch Ireland during 2021 launched a program of video inspection of three locations within Kenmare Bay, County Kerry to ascertain if sea trout were returning to rivers with abnormal high sea lice infestation rates. The three locations examined were the Kerry Blackwater, Sneem River and Waterville.
The Blackwater River or Kerry Blackwater is a river in County Kerry, southwestern Ireland. It is not to be confused with the much longer Munster Blackwater, which also rises in County Kerry.
A Special Area of Conservation, protects most of the basin of the Blackwater River. This is one of the areas in which the rare Kerry Slug is known to occur.
Together we travelled to Cork and Kerry visiting villages and townlands surrounding the RiverBlackwater trying to describe the magic of this music and its origins in the "rushy mountain".
Diarmuid Ó Drisceoil follows in the footsteps of Annraoi Ó Liathain and brings you the story of the RiverBlackwater in Munster. Starting at the source in the north eastern Kerry mountains, under the ...
There were 6,500 homes without power in Cork and Kerry as of 7.30am on Friday ... Bus services are suspended in Cork and Kerry until 10am ... On the river Blackwater, LongfieldsBridge (R621) and the bridge in Killavullen are both closed.
Many customers in south Kerry and west Cork may be without power overnight ... A status-red warning has been lifted in Cork, Kerry, Clare and Waterford ... On the river Blackwater, LongfieldsBridge (R621) and the bridge in Killavullen were closed.
Some customers in south Kerry and west Cork may be without power overnight ... A status-red warning has been lifted in Cork, Kerry, Clare and Waterford ... On the river Blackwater, LongfieldsBridge (R621) and the bridge in Killavullen were closed.
Some customers in south Kerry and west Cork may be without power overnight ... A status-red warning has been lifted in Cork, Kerry, Clare and Waterford ... On the river Blackwater, LongfieldsBridge (R621) and the bridge in Killavullen were closed.