The Castletown River () is a
river
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which flows through the town of
Dundalk
Dundalk ( ; ) is the county town of County Louth, Ireland. The town is situated on the Castletown River, which flows into Dundalk Bay on the north-east coast of Ireland, and is halfway between Dublin and Belfast, close to and south of the bor ...
,
County Louth
County Louth ( ; ) is a coastal Counties of Ireland, county in the Eastern and Midland Region of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, within the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster. Louth is bordered by the counties of County Meath, Meath to the ...
,
Ireland
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. It rises near
Newtownhamilton,
County Armagh
County Armagh ( ) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. It is located in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Ulster and adjoins the southern shore of Lough Neagh. It borders t ...
,
Northern Ireland
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, and is known as the Creggan River in its upper reaches. Its two main tributaries are the
Kilcurry and
Falmore rivers
and it enters the
Irish Sea
The Irish Sea is a body of water that separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. It is linked to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the North Ch ...
at
Dundalk Bay
Dundalk Bay () is a large (33 km2), exposed estuary on the east coast of Ireland.
The inner bay is shallow, sandy and intertidal, though it slopes into a deeper area 2 km from the transitional water boundary.[brown trout
The brown trout (''Salmo trutta'') is a species of salmonid ray-finned fish and the most widely distributed species of the genus ''Salmo'', endemic to most of Europe, West Asia and parts of North Africa, and has been widely introduced globally ...]
, sea trout and
salmon
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and is also stocked with brown trout.
Fishing is controlled by the Dundalk Brown Trout Angling Association.
See also
*
List of rivers of Ireland
This is an alphabetical list of the main rivers on the island of Ireland. It includes rivers that flow through the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Rivers that flow through Northern Ireland are marked with an asterisk (*). There are ove ...
References
External links
Salmon fishing on the River Castletown (Courtbane), from Salmon Ireland
Rivers of County Louth
Rivers of County Armagh
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