Muingnabo River
Muingnabo River Abhainn Mhoing na Bó | |
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![]() Muingnabo River upstream from Annie Brady's Bridge | |
Native name | Abhainn Mhoing na Bó (Irish) |
Location | |
Country | Ireland |
County | Mayo |
Physical characteristics | |
Mouth | |
• location | Atlantic Ocean via Sruwaddacon Bay |
The Muingnabo River (Irish: Abhainn Mhoing na Bó)[1] is a river in north County Mayo, in the northwest of Ireland. It flows into the Atlantic Ocean via Sruwaddacon Bay.
Geography
Sruwaddacon Bay, the Glenamoy River and the Muingnabo River are part of the Glenamoy Bog Complex Special Area of Conservation.[2]
History
Before the famine, the Wood family from Yorkshire owned the townland surrounding the river. The Woods built a hunting lodge by the river, using a salmon net with a bell alert system to detect caught fish. They cultivated oil seed in a nearby area called "Park na Rapa".[3]
A road connecting two nearby villages, Carrowteige and Glenamoy, was built in 1846. As there was no bridge yet constructed over the Muingnabo River, a fording point was used. Annie Brady, the wife of a local Fisheries Inspector fundraised for a new bridge, completed in 1886. The current bridge replaces Brady's bridge, destroyed by floods in 1933.[4][3]
See also
References
- ^ "Abhainn Mhoing na Bó/Muingnabo River". logainm.ie. Retrieved 2023-12-31.
- ^ "Glenamoy Bog Complex SAC | National Parks & Wildlife Service". www.npws.ie. Retrieved 2023-12-31.
- ^ a b Noone, Fr. S. Where the Sun Sets (1991)
- ^ "Bridges in co. Mayo in the West of Ireland". www.mayo-ireland.ie. Retrieved 2023-12-31.
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