Irish Whitewater Forum

Nice idea. i dunno how often the lower caragh is paddled though. Think phoenix do beginner trips there sometimes. the expert in this field is Daithi Power who created the flesk gauge and riverspy. If its still there, there was a "how to build a gauge" link on the site. Personally, I'd find level inf...

Do you want surf boats specifically or general purpose/playboats as well.
If so youre welcome to use any of mine.
https://kayakwestcork.shutterfly.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6HDi-E ... sKsZvRAVUQ
(on my channel but made by Donncha O'Brien)

i-canoe in dublin

paddling in ireland is a lottery. winter months are the wettest but whats important is not the frequency of rain but the intensity. all irish rivers are "spate" rivers needing half an inch or more in one go to bring them to a runnable level. face book is a good source of info. try the pages for iris...

try phoenix- they have lots of young lads your age

OWNGAR- the tree strainer just after the confluence with the owvane has got bigger.
just possible to squeeze through on far left but big groups or beginners will need to portage

added owenreagh guide and one for a river in beara a few months back but not up yet

floods during week seem to have cleared the second gorge

Hi. Date Sept 7th.
Try posting in the following (more local)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/360405977377492/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/380594125332184/
(kenmare bay and beara paddle clubs)
and i have copied this to the cork kerry paddle group

So far theres a cork crew going, a dublin crew and a limerick one. I reckon about 15 people all told

Hi Eoin, I looked into this recently in the other direction. Mad expensive too. Eventually boat packaged with load going to I-canoe. The 2 options i came up with had that not worked out were 1- Foot passenger on ferry. About 20 each way and boat no prob.Did that once years ago. (but you gotta persua...

The french website www.eauxvives.org has a comprehensive set of guides to all french whitewater rivers.(and many in italy,switzerland,spain too)
GPS coordinates are on most. easy enough to note the ones you want.