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Cappoquin Rowing Club is a mixed river club in Cappoquin, County Waterford. Rowing Ireland lists the club in Munster, and the town stands on the River Blackwater.

Founded in 1862, the club is Cappoquin's oldest sporting and social organisation. James M. Moore and John Stanley founded it with help from Sir John H. Keane, who became its first president.

Cappoquin joined other clubs in an attempt to establish an Irish Amateur Rowing Association in the 1880s. The first formal clubhouse was built in 1875, and the present clubhouse dates from 1910.

Early results include the Ladies Plate for fours at Clonmel Regatta in 1878, the Queenstown Cup for senior fours in 1880, the Lee Challenge Cup for underage fours in 1907, and the Waterford Boat Club Challenge Cup for junior fours in 1910.

The club reached the final of the Britannia Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in 1990. Its rowing history is preserved in centenary and 140-year books published in 1962 and 2002, with both volumes now held in Waterford's local-history archive.

Cappoquin remains active in national and masters competition. Rowing Ireland listed eight club entries for the 2024 World Rowing Masters Regatta, and its 2025 Cork Regatta results recorded entries across both divisions.