My favourite stretch of Mayo river flows between ivied oaks in a hollow below the bog and onwards under Louisburgh’s bridge to the sea. The Bunowen is perfect for sea trout – quite a short river, a bit acid, low in nutrients, running up to stony shallows in the moor. In the hollow, it glides over eight mossy boulder weirs, built more than a century ago…
Irish Times, 11/02/17. Read the full article ‘Michael Viney: how trout disappeared from my favourite river‘.
