Caragh River Catchment
The River Caragh () is a river in County Kerry in southwestern Ireland. The river has a catchment area of about , comes under the protection of a Special Area of Conservation (" Killarney National Park, MacGillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment"). The rare Kerry Slug The Kerry slug or Kerry spotted slug (''Geomalacus maculosus'') is a species of terrestrial, pulmonate, gastropod mollusc. It is a medium-to-large sized, air-breathing land slug in the family of roundback slugs, Arionidae. Adult Kerry slu ... is known to have been identified in the area. References External links * Rivers of County Kerry {{Ireland-river-stub ...
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River Caragh Scartnamackagh (geograph 3302674)
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as creek, brook, rivulet, and rill. There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to geographic features, although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size. Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location; examples are "run" in some parts of the United States, "burn" in Scotland and northeast England, and "beck" in northern England. Sometimes a river is defined as being larger than a creek, but not always: the language is vague. Rivers are part of the water cycle. Water generally collects in a river from precipitation through a drainage basin from surface runoff and other sources such as groundwater recharge, springs ...
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