Palmerstown

Palmerstown Wave

Brief feature description

This is a great "Park&Play" spot situated on the river liffey. Perfect for the beginners that want to improve there roll as you will have a good few beatdowns or the advanced wanting to improve you skills. The feature is about 10 feet wide.

The feature changes depending on the releases from leixlip dam. It works from two and a half megs plus ranging from a wave/hole to a nice wave with two good shoulders. At perfect levels almost every trick can be thrown here including hole moves such as mcnasty and phonix monkey.

Location

It is located at palmerstown weir at the WWKC in the strawberry beds.

Access

Put on around the back of the petrol station and drop on from upstream. The land owner does not want anyone climbing the wall on the upstream side of the bridge and putting on there as he has had problems with kids drinking there after seeing paddlers gain access that way. He has no problem with paddlers using his land to access the feature from upstream so please only use this put on.

Get off is directly below the bridge on river left. There is a clear path up the bank that will bring you back to the car park. This can also be used as a put on but on high flows it is a tough paddle up through the bridge.

Required Conditions/Levels

It will take a few days of rain to come up after a dry spell but during winter months a day of decent rain should bring it up. Once up it usually holds out for a few days. There is an online gauge for the feature but at the moment it does not give accurate measurements. If in doubt throw up a post on the NUIGKC forum and someone should be able to give you a good idea of the level.

.9 on the gauge by hole is generally the minimum level while once it gets above 1.8 it starts turning into a small flushy wave.

Note: The online gauge is not calibrated to the gauge at the hole. Generally 1.4 on the online gauge is .9 at the hole.

More Info & Tips

Tuam is the coldest spot around so bring a skull cap. Video.