River Fane

River Fane
River Fane
	Lough Ross, source of the Fane
Etymology	Perhaps "river of the ford of carts"
Native name	Abhainn Átha Féan (Irish)
Location
Country	Ireland
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Lough Ross, County Monaghan–Armagh
Mouth
• location	Irish Sea via Dundalk Bay
Length	61.56 kilometres (38.25 mi)
Basin size	350 km2 (140 sq mi)
Discharge
• average	15.39 m3/s (543 cu ft/s)

The River Fane (Irish: Abhainn Átha Féan) is a river flowing from County Monaghan to Dundalk Bay in County Louth, Ireland.

Course

Estuary of the Fane

Originating in Lough Ross on the border of County Monaghan and County Armagh, and so of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland,^[2] the Fane flows east towards Dundalk Bay, straddling the border between Counties Monaghan, Louth and Armagh and flowing through Inniskeen and Knockbridge, before meeting Dundalk Bay near Blackrock in County Louth.

The Fane River is 38.25 miles long and drains an area of 350 km²^[3]

The Fane is, through the Cavan Hill pumping station, a major source of fresh water for Dundalk and the surrounding area in northern Louth.

Runoff from illegal fuel laundering operations, carried out in the region, is a major source of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons which have severely affected Atlantic salmon stocks in the region.^[4]

^ http://www.cfram.ie/otherprojects/IBE0700Rp0008_UoM06%20Hydrology%20Report_F02.pdf ^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Fly fishing in Dundalk. Salmon and trout fishing". Eastern Regional Fisheries Board. Archived from the original on 29 October 2012. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
^ Ordnance Survey of Ireland: Rivers and their Catchment Basins 1958 (Table of Reference)
^ Jim Cusack (3 January 2016). "Provo diesel pollution wiping out salmon". Irish Independent.

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