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Bann

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A river in County Down, County Armagh, County Antrim and County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, which flows through Lough Neagh.

    "He smiled at me and he says, says he,\"That's the gem of the Ireland's crown./Young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann/She's the star of the County Down"."

  2. 2
    A surname from German.
  3. 3
    A river in southeastern Ireland.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Irish an Bhanna (“the river goddess”), from ban (“woman”) + dia (“goddess, deity”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Bann.

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