In this spot, you have three rivers to choose from for your dip. But why choose when you can bathe in all three.

The Meeting of the Waters is a famous wild swimming spot located near the charming village of Rathdrum. Here, the Avonmore and Avonbeg Rivers converge to form the Avoca River, creating a serene and picturesque setting.

Swimmers love this spot for its inviting, calm waters, making it perfect for a refreshing dip. With varying depths available, everyone can find their ideal level of immersion in this beautiful natural oasis.

There is a local craft shop and restaurant nearby too for after your swim in the rivers

Thomas Moore immortalised it in his poem The Meeting of the Waters, which gave its name to this very spot.

The Meeting of the Waters
by Thomas Moore

There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet
As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet;
Oh! the last rays of feeling and life must depart,
Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.

Yet it was not that nature had shed o’er the scene
Her purest of crystal and brightest of green;
‘Twas not her soft magic of streamlet or hill,
Oh! no, — it was something more exquisite still.

‘Twas that friends, the beloved of my bosom, were near,
Who made every dear scene of enchantment more dear,
And who felt how the best charms of nature improve,
When we see them reflected from looks that we love.

Sweet vale of Avoca! how calm could I rest
In thy bosom of shade, with the friends I love best,
Where the storms that we feel in this cold world should cease,
And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace.

Credits

Photograph © Copyright Michael Dibb and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

Poem © by owner. provided at no charge for educational purposes.