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The heritage village on the tidal River Maigue, southwest of Limerick city — “the ford of the oak”, a medieval market town with three monasteries, and the Desmond castle that watched the crossing.
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The heritage village on the tidal River Maigue, southwest of Limerick city — “the ford of the oak”, a medieval market town with three monasteries, and the Desmond castle that watched the crossing.
The small town on the southern bank of the Shannon Estuary that was the eastern end of the Atlantic — the flying-boat terminal of the 1930s and 40s, and now Ireland’s second-biggest port.
The city at the head of the Shannon Estuary — founded by Scandinavian settlers in 812, straddling the river with its historic core on King’s Island, and the third-biggest urban area in Ireland.
The longest river in the British Isles — 360 km from the Shannon Pot to the Atlantic, a waterway since Ptolemy mapped it, and the great divide between the west of Ireland and the rest.
The 102 km where the River Shannon meets the Atlantic — Limerick city at its head, Loop Head to Kerry Head at its mouth, with a tidal range of more than five metres and a bore that comes up the water in a spring tide.