Photo by Pat Casey
The Blackwater Valley is a best kept secret. Whether you are looking for excellent fishing spots, activities like canoeing, horse riding, hiking, mountain biking, or more laid back pursuits such as site seeing, dining out, a round of golf or a good pub music session, you’ll find plenty of options along the Blackwater.
Please enjoy what this site has to offer in your pursuit of fun and leisure, and feel free to comment on our blogs, send us a message or share our secret with a friend.
Blackwater Valley Tourism is a not for profit organisation set up in 1997 by the business community with the support of local community development organisations.
A quote taken from Page 493 of The Penny Cyclopaedia of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volume III Athanaric – Bassano, C. Knight, 1835
The scenery all along is highly beautiful and picturesque, and a recent tourist has lately pronounced the decent of the Blackwater from Mallow to Lismore equal to that of any other river of its size in Europe.
The Blackwater River - Photo by Niamh Ni Chearbhaill
What Wikipedia Says About Munster Blackwater
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia.org
The Blackwater or Munster Blackwater (Irish: An Abhainn Mhór, The Great River) is a river which flows through counties Kerry, Cork, and Waterford in Ireland. It rises in the Mullaghareirk Mountains in County Kerry and then flows in an easterly direction through County Cork, through Mallow and Fermoy. It then enters County Waterford where it flows through Lismore, before abruptly turning south at Cappoquin, and finally draining into the sea at Youghal Harbour. In total, the Blackwater is 168 kilometres long.
The Blackwater is notable for being one of the best salmon fishing rivers in the country. Like most British and Irish rivers, salmon stocks declined in recent years, but the Irish Government banned commercial netting of salmon off the coast of Ireland in November, 2006.
