Clady River

The River Clady is a mid-scale river in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, a tributary of the Lower Bann. It starts on Carntogher Mountain and its upper stretch from the Source to Upperlands is well known as the Knockoneil River  Upperlands on its The Clady River.

Course
The river starts near Culnady when the Grillagh River and the Knockoneil River merge at the joinings. The main river flows onwards from here for some miles and this area often floods during peak flows. The river now flows in silence under Eden Bridge and on through Greenlough, over the weir and past the Clady Clubhouse then through Innishrush under the wee Footstick and then into Clady itself, It flows over Lagans mill weir down the rocky gorge like riverbed under the Old Clady Bridge, and then settles as it approaches the Glenone Bridge, where the water is 40 foot+ until it meets the River Bann.

The river is of medium scale, and it is measured at Glenone Bridge, an old Victorian bridge under which the river flows before it empties into the Lower Bann. During a flood, it can turn from a quiet trickle to a torrent within a few hours of heavy rain; this led to the drowning of Robert Reid and Agnes Henry in the 1920s when they went over the Clady bridge.



Bridges
There are three major bridges over the Clady River : As well there are many named footstick bridges:
 * Eden Bridge, Upper River
 * Clady Bridge
 * Glenone Bridge, Lower River
 * Lyle Footstick Ballymacpeake
 * Newtown Footstick Greenlough Chapel
 * Clubhouse Footstick CADAC 2002
 * Innishrush Footstick Bridge

Tributary rivers and streams
The Knockoneil River and the Grillagh River are the main head tributarys to the Clady River. The 2 rivers starts up in Slaughtneil. Main Drain Is a wetland burn that flows through Dreenan townland under Dreenan Bridge on the main Maghera to Portglenone Road and on through ballymacpeake where the Eden Drain joins and under Ballymacpeake Bridge then to the Clady above Lyle Footstick.

Eden Drain: This burn starts in Lavey near Gulladuff and flows under the Lavey Bridge

on the Main Road and then north and swings to the east through the lowlands through Eden south of McGoldrick Transport premises under Annaghclaywood Bridge then into the Main Drain burn in Ballymacpeake.

Gorse Drain.

Drumnacannon Burn a small stream near Tamlaght O Crilly.

Ballymacpeake Sheugh.

Killycon Burn Innishrush.

Angling
There is a fishing club house located along its banks just outside Clady. The facility consists of a fish counter and a weir constructed in 2011 for salmon spawning. Multiple fishing disabed piers are located along the embankment. The best time to catch a fish is in the months of September and October before the fishing season ends on 31 October.

The river's angling rights is leased by the Clady And District Angling Club funded in 1962.