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1. The River Lee (ar lean)

   

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   Ireland from the eight to the tenth century, the Lee was called the Severnnus or "queen river" by the invaders. It is identical with the Severn river of England in name. In Ptolemy's map it is called the Sabrona and was rendered into Irish as An t-Sabhrain. It is even mentioned in the Four Masters by this name. The word itself being feminine in Irish, a "t" was added after the article, and thus it was written Ant-Sabhrian and pronounced An Tovern.

   
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   The mouth or end of a river is called "Bun" in Irish to distinguish it from "Barr" its head or source. Bun is applied, therefore, to any town, village, or hamlet at a river's mouth, and thus we have Bunmahon, Bundroran, Burnratty, Bunclody, etc. Now

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