Colebrooke River

{{short description|River in Northern Ireland, part of the Erne system}} {{for|the stream in Pennsylvania|Coal Brook}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}} {{EngvarB|date=March 2020}} thumb|200px|The Colebrooke River. Looking upstream at Maguiresbridge.

The '''Colebrooke River''' (Irish: ''An Abha Dhubh'')<ref>{{Cite web |title=An Abha Dhubh/Colebrooke River |url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/121007 |access-date=2023-12-09 |website=logainm.ie}}</ref> is a river in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Its source is in the Sliabh Beagh mountains where it is known as the ''Many Burns''.

The river flows in a south-westerly direction, through Maguiresbridge, before merging with the Tempo River and finally entering Upper Lough Erne near Inishcollan, Lisnaskea.<ref>{{cite web | title=Rivers – From ''Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland'' (1900) | work=Library Ireland | url=http://www.libraryireland.com/Atlas/Fermanagh.php | accessdate=2007-11-28 | archive-date=29 November 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071129231258/http://www.libraryireland.com/Atlas/Fermanagh.php | url-status=live }}</ref>

==Angling== The river has abundant large bream, roach, perch, rudd and pike. At the end of the season salmon and trout can be caught as they move from Lough Erne to their spawning grounds in the river's upper reaches.<ref>{{cite web | title=Colebrooke River | work=Discover Northern Ireland | url=http://www.discovernorthernireland.com/shortbreaks/product.aspx?ProductID=2436 | accessdate=2007-11-28}} {{dead link|date=March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Colebrook River |work=DCAL – Fishing NI |url=http://www.dcal-fishingni.gov.uk/riversinfo/default.asp?river=ColebrookRiver-WILD |accessdate=2007-11-28 |url-status = dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929102732/http://www.dcal-fishingni.gov.uk/riversinfo/default.asp?river=ColebrookRiver-WILD |archivedate=29 September 2007 }}</ref>

Some of the river is private fishing water on the Colebrooke Park estate.<ref>{{cite web | title=Colebrooke River | work=Guided Fishing | url=http://www.jxbreslin.com/new_page_4.htm | accessdate=2007-11-28 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071210085519/http://www.jxbreslin.com/new_page_4.htm | archive-date=2007-12-10 |url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Colebrook Park Fishing | work=Colebrooke Park | url=http://www.colebrooke.info/fishing.htm | accessdate=2007-11-28 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080119035649/http://www.colebrooke.info/fishing.htm | archive-date=2008-01-19 |url-status = dead}}</ref>

==Geology== The Brookeborough Diamond, the only gem-quality diamond to have been found in Ireland, was discovered in the Colebrooke River in 1816. Karelian Diamond Resources plc, a Dublin-based company, was awarded a prospecting licence in the area in 2019 and undertook a sampling program which found chromite in stream sediments from the river.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://fermanaghherald.com/2021/11/diamond-mine-company-excited-by-fermanagh-tests/|title=Diamond mine company 'excited' by Fermanagh tests|newspaper=Fermanagh Herald|date=26 November 2021|accessdate=21 July 2022|first=Roisin|last=Henderson}}</ref>

==See also== {{Commons category}} *List of rivers of Ireland

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Category:Rivers of County Fermanagh