Morell River

River Morell
Native name	An Mhoiréil
Country	Ireland
Basin
Main source	Slieveroe, County Kildare ~146 m (479 ft)
River mouth	Irish Sea at Dublin Bay via River Liffey
Basin size	98.7 km² (38.1 sq mi)
Physical characteristics
Length	~16 km (9.9 mi)
Discharge	Average rate: 0.279 m³/s (9.9 cu ft/s)
Features
Tributaries	Right: Painestown River

The Morell River (Irish: An Mhoiréil) is a river in County Kildare, Ireland, and a tributary of the River Liffey.

Name

The name of the river /məˈrɛl/ derives from William Morrell, formerly a landowner in the area. It first appears (spelled Morrel) in the Statistical Survey of the County of Kildare (1807).^[1]

Course

The Morell rises in Slieveroe, a few kilometres west of Blessington Lake. It flows south-to-north through Punchestown Racecourse, passing Craddockstown Golf Club, Naas Industrial Estate. It meets with a tributary stream outside Johnstown, County Kildare and is bridged by the N7 road. It continues northwards and unites with another tributary south of Palmerstown House Golf Club. The Morell then passes under the Grand Canal via an aqueduct and under the Dublin–Cork railway line, then Morell unites with the Painestown River and then passes under the Morell Bridge, where there is an Environmental Protection Agency monitoring station.^[2] The Morell drains into the Liffey about 1 km south of Straffan and about 470 m downstream from the Straffan weir.

Wildlife

There is substantial canopy cover provided by maple sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) and European alder (Alnus glutinosa),^[3] which allows spawning by the resident population of Brown trout and migratory populations of sea trout (Salmo trutta) and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)^[4]

A study by the Water Framework Directive Ireland awarded the Morell "Moderate" status for its suitability for macroinvertebrates.^[5]

References

Places in County Kildare

County town: Naas

Towns	Athy Celbridge Clane Kilcock Kildare Leixlip Maynooth Naas Newbridge Sallins

Villages and Townlands	Allen Allenwood Ardclogh Ballitore Ballymore Eustace Calverstown Caragh Carbury Castledermot Coill Dubh Derrinturn Eadestown Hawkfield Johnstown Kilberry Kilcullen Kildangan Kill Kilmead Kilmeage Kilteel Lullymore Milltown Monasterevin Moone Narraghmore Nurney Prosperous Rathangan Robertstown Sallins Straffan Staplestown Suncroft Timolin

Landforms	Bog of Allen Cupidstown Hill Curragh Grand Canal Hill of Allen River Barrow River Blackwater River Boyne Figile River River Greese River Liffey Lyreen River Morell River River Rye Royal Canal

Topics	Geography of County Kildare List of National Monuments in County Kildare List of townlands of County Kildare Mountains and hills of County Kildare Rivers of County Kildare

Rivers of Ireland

List

Flowing north	Bann Bush Foyle Roe

Flowing to the Irish Sea	Avoca Boyne Camac Castletown Dargle Dodder Fane Lagan Liffey Naniken Newry Poddle Quoile Santry Slaney Tolka Vartry

Flowing to the Celtic Sea	Bandon Blackwater Lee Mahon The Three Sisters Barrow Nore Suir

Flowing to the Atlantic	Clare Corrib Erne Eske Feale Ferta Moy Robe Shannon Swilly

Tributaries of the Shannon	Abbey River Boyle River Brosna Deel Fergus Inny Maigue Mulkear River Nenagh River Suck

River names in italics indicate rivers which are partially or wholly in Northern Ireland, with the rest being wholly in the Republic of Ireland

Coordinates: 53°18′N 6°37′W / 53.300°N 6.617°W / 53.300; -6.617

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