Naniken River
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The Naniken River is a minor river on the north side of Dublin city, one of more than forty watercourses monitored by Dublin City Council. It rises in the vicinity of Santry Lane, between Santry and Ballymun, passes through Beaumont and Artane, under the Malahide Road near the Artane Roundabout, then under Harmonstown and into Raheny, where it once formed the boundary of the Church of Ireland glebe (rectory lands), passing under Howth Road and forming a feature of St. Anne's Park, where it supplies the Old Pond, and enters the western half of the "lagoon" behind North Bull Island. The line of the Naniken from its mouth marks the boundary of the civil parish of Raheny and the beginning of the Raheny portion of the Bull Island.
There is a drainage link between the Naniken and the Santry River to reduce the flow from the river's upper reaches, and to deal with flooding or overflow situations.
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- Dublin, 1991: The Rivers of Dublin, Clair L. Sweeney, Dublin Corporation
