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River Vartry

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formed along the coastline cutting off the Vartry from its original egress. This sand spit is called The Murrough/Murragh and it carries the Dublin to Wicklow coastal railway line built in the 1860s. Broad Lough drains southwards into the
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through Wicklow town centre and harbour. The name of this stretch of water (approximately 1.5 km in length) is disputed. It is variously called the River Leitrim, the Broad Lough Estuary and the River Vartry.
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town (at its closest point) and approximately 4 km north of Parnell Bridge (at its furthest point). This lake and surrounding wetlands evolved when a
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The Vartry Reservoir and Waterworks still supply some 200,000 homes, providing 40% of all of Dublin's water needs.
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the place where St. Patrick landed was at Inverdea, the mouth of the river Vartry in County Wicklow.
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In 1861 Parliament passed the Dublin Waterworks Act creating a project to dam the River Vartry in
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Broad Lough is a narrow lake which lies approximately 1 km north of Parnell Bridge in
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and continues eastwards into Broad Lough, which flows towards Wicklow town.
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at Glasnamullen. Similar placenames are found at Forther, Forthar,
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The river first appears in 12th-century records with the name
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The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
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McHugh, Ronald. Annotations to Finnegans Wake. Pg. 521
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Dublin on a knife-edge when it comes to water supply
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Ashford
Irish
County Wicklow
Mouth
Irish Sea
Wicklow
/ˈvɑːrtr/
Irish
County Wicklow
Ireland
Dublin
Old Irish
ringfort
Fortriu
Great Sugar Loaf
County Wicklow
Ashford
Devil's Glen
N11 road
Wicklow
sand spit
Irish Sea
Roundwood
Vartry Reservoir
Dublin
James Joyce
Ulysses
Finnegans Wake

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