River Annas is formed at the Kinmont Beck and Crookley Beck meet on the eastern edge of the village of Bootle and the combined waters flow southwest towards Annaside on the Irish Sea (which separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain) coast.
It is formed as the Kinmont Beck and Crookley Beck which drain the southwestern fells of the Lake District, meet on the eastern edge of the village of Bootle. Their combined waters flow southwest towards Annaside on the Irish Sea coast. The Irish Sea (Irish: Muir Eireann / An Mhuir Mheann, Manx: Y Keayn Yernagh, Scots: Erse Sie, Scottish Gaelic: Muir Eireann, Ulster-Scots: Airish Sea, Welsh: Mor Iwerddon, Cornish: Mor Iwerdhon) separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain; linked to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel, and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the North Channel, also known as the Straits of Moyle. 
