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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 353 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BANN  , the

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principal
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river in the north of Ireland . Rising in the Mourne mountains in the south of the Co . Down it runs N.W. until it enters Lough
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Neagh (q.v.), which it drains N.N.W. to an estuary at
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Coleraine, forming Lough Beg immediately below the larger lough . The length of its valley (excluding the lesser windings of the river) is about 90 m . The
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total drainage
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area, including the other important feeders of Lough Neagh, is about 2300 sq. m., extending westward to the confines of the Co .
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Fermanagh, and including parts of the Cos . Down and Antrim,
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Armagh and
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Monaghan, Tyrone and Londonderry . The river has valuable salmon
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fisheries, but is not of much importance for navigation . Above Lough Neagh it is known as the Upper Bann and below as the
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Lower Bann .

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