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Clady River

Coordinates: 54°52′45″N 6°29′16″W / 54.8793°N 6.4877°W / 54.8793; -6.4877
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Clady River
Clady River Spate Glenone Bridge 2023.
River Bann
 A54  Glenone Bridge
Clady Clady Bridge
Footstick Bridge
Carnaman Burn
Eden Bridge
Grillagh River
Dunglady Bridge
Upperlands Boyne Bridge
 B75  Upperlands Bridge
Amportane Bridge
Beagh Bridge
Craigavole River
Greenwater River
Swatragh  A29  Swatragh Bridge
Slaughtneil Knockoneil Bridge
Burn
Corlacky Bridge
Corlacky River
Crockanroe Burn
Tammybrack Bridge
Greenwater Burn
Source On Carntogher Slaughtneil
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationGrillagh River And Knockoneil River
Mouth 
 • location
River Bann
Clady River
Glenone Bridge over the Clady

The River Clady is a mid-scale river in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, a tributary of the Lower Bann.[1][2] It starts on Carntogher Mountain and its upper stretch from the Source to Upperlands is well known as the Knockoneil River Upperlands on its The Clady River.

Course

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The river starts near Culnady when the Grillagh River and the Knockoneil River merge at the joinings. The main river flows onwards from here for some miles and this area often floods during peak flows. The river now flows in silence under Eden Bridge and on through Greenlough , over the weir and past the Clady Clubhouse then through Innishrush under the wee Footstick and then into Clady itself, It flows over Lagans mill weir down the rocky gorge like riverbed under the Old Clady Bridge, and then settles as it approaches the Glenone Bridge, where the water is 40 foot+ until it meets the River Bann.

The river is of medium scale, and it is measured at Glenone Bridge, an old Victorian bridge under which the river flows before it empties into the Lower Bann. During a flood, it can turn from a quiet trickle to a torrent within a few hours of heavy rain; this led to the drowning of Robert Reid and Agnes Henry in the 1920s when they went over the Clady bridge.

Clady Bridge

Bridges

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Eden Bridge Flood

There are three major bridges over the Clady River :

  • Eden Bridge, Upper River
  • Clady Bridge
  • Glenone Bridge, Lower River

As well there are many named footstick bridges:

  • Lyle Footstick Ballymacpeake
  • Newtown Footstick Greenlough Chapel
  • Clubhouse Footstick CADAC 2002
  • Innishrush Footstick Bridge

Tributary rivers and streams

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The Knockoneil River and the Grillagh River are the main head tributarys to the Clady River. The 2 rivers starts up in Slaughtneil .

Eden Bridge Normal

Main Drain Is a wetland burn that flows through Dreenan townland under Dreenan Bridge on the main Maghera to Portglenone Road and on through ballymacpeake where the Eden Drain joins and under Ballymacpeake Bridge then to the Clady above Lyle Footstick.

Eden Drain: This burn starts in Lavey near Gulladuff and flows under the Lavey Bridge

on the Main Road and then north and swings to the east through the lowlands through Eden south of McGoldrick Transport premises under Annaghclaywood Bridge then into the Main Drain burn in Ballymacpeake.

Gorse Drain.

Drumnacannon Burn a small stream near Tamlaght O Crilly.

Ballymacpeake Sheugh.

Killycon Burn Innishrush. [citation needed]

Angling

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There is a fishing club house located along its banks just outside Clady. The facility consists of a fish counter and a weir constructed in 2011 for salmon spawning. Multiple fishing disabed piers are located along the embankment. The best time to catch a fish is in the months of September and October before the fishing season ends on 31 October.

The river's angling rights is leased by the Clady And District Angling Club funded in 1962.

References

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  1. ^ "River Clady". Salmon Ireland. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  2. ^ "Body recovered in search for missing worker who fell from bridge in Donegal". Independent.ie. Independent. Retrieved 7 December 2018.

54°52′45″N 6°29′16″W / 54.8793°N 6.4877°W / 54.8793; -6.4877