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- An Abhainn Mhór
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River Blackwater
river, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Also known as: An Abhainn Mhór
River Blackwater, river in Northern Ireland, rising in the uplands near the Dungannon Fermanagh district boundaries and fed by a network of small streams northeast of a drainage divide near Fivemiletown. The river flows northeast through southern Dungannon district and then turns southeast, forming part of the border with the Republic of Ireland. West of Tynan it turns northeast again and flows across the Moy-Caledon lowland and the central lowland to enter Lough (lake) Neagh, after a course of 50 miles (80 km). Immediately south of Lough Neagh, drumlins (oval mounds of glacial till) provide the only sites that are normally dry in an area subject to flooding.
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