Recreation
Kilkenny fishing club has extensive fishing rights on the River Nore and its tributary, the Dinin River. Popular with anglers, it holds brown trout and salmon.
Some of these weirs along the have good playboating qualities, the river is long and mostly flat and dotted with weirs at most of the villages it passes through.
Salmon runs on the river Nore were interrupted in 2005 and 2006 by a flood relief scheme in Kilkenny city carried out by the Office of Public Works. Initially budgeted at €13.1 million, the scheme was delivered at a cost in excess of €48 million and did not contain suitable fish passes. This oversight has since been rectified at additional expense and salmon can now ascend the river upstream of Kilkenny city.
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