Diarmuid Ó Drisceoil on travelling along the Blackwater for a new TG4 series

Cois Móire has the presenter tracing the Munster river from its source in Co Kerry to its mouth at Youghal, meeting all sorts of interesting people along the way

Diarmuid Ó Drisceoil presents Cois Móire, about the River Blackwater, on TG4.

Mon, 07 Nov, 2022 - 21:00

Richard Fitzpatrick

A river runs through it, flowing through Munster for more than a hundred miles along the spine of the province, from west to east, rising in Kerry’s Mullaghareirk mountains, winding through counties Cork and Waterford, until it enters the sea at Youghal. Its name is the River Blackwater, but the ancient geographer Ptolemy called it Daurona and its original name comes from an old Celtic goddess, Mór.

Cormorant Films commissioned writer and historian Diarmuid Ó Drisceoil to paddle down the Blackwater in his canoe, using a 58-year-old travel book by Annroai Ó Liatháin as a guide, to discover the hidden treasures along the river. His journey, which is captured in a four-part documentary series on TG4, takes its title, Cois Móire, from Ó Liatháin’s book.