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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 751 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ERNE , the name of a See also:

river and two lakes in the See also:north-See also:west of See also:Ireland. The river rises in Lough Gowna, See also:county See also:Longford, 214 ft. above See also:sea-level, flows north through Lough Oughter with a See also:serpentine course and a direction generally northward, and then broadens into the Upper Lough Erne, a shallow irregular See also:sheet of See also:water 13 M. See also:long, so beset with islands as to See also:present the See also:appearance of a number of water-channels ramifying through the See also:land. The river then winds past the See also:town of See also:Enniskillen on its See also:island, and enters Lough Erne, a beautiful See also: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 See also:Donegal See also:Bay, forming a See also:fine fall at See also:Ballyshannon (q.v.). Lough Erne contains See also:trout and See also:pike. These See also:waters admit of See also:navigation by small steamers, but little See also:trade is carried on. The See also:area of the Erne See also:basin, which includes a vast number of small' loughs, is about 1600 sq. m., and it covers See also:part of'the counties See also:Cavan, Longford, See also:Leitrim, See also:Fermanagh and Donegal. The length of the Erne valley is about 70 M.

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