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ERNE , the name of a river and two lakes in the north-west of Ireland. The river rises in Lough Gowna, county Longford, 214 ft. above sea-level, flows north through Lough Oughter with a serpentine course and a direction generally northward, and then broadens into the Upper Lough Erne, a shallow irregular sheet
long , so beset with islands as to present the appearance of a number of water-channels ramifying through the land
island , and enters Lough Erne, a beautiful lake nearly 18 m. long and 5 M. in extreme width, containing many islands, but less closely covered with them than the upper lough. One of them, Devenish, is celebrated for its antiquarian remains (see ENNISKILLEN). The river then runs westward to Donegal Bay, forming a fine fall at Ballyshannon
trade
the Erne basin, which includes a vast number of small' loughs, is about 1600 sq. m., and it covers part
Leitrim
Fermanagh
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