24 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



fburces of this river take their rife at a fmall diftance 

 from ekch other, in that part of the mountains of 

 Mourne called the Deer's meadow, and, after diverg- 

 ing from each ether, join a little to the eaftward of 

 Rathfryland, -where it becomes a large river, flows 

 through M'Cay's-bridge toBanbridge, thence N.N.W. 

 by Sea-Patrick and Hall's-mill, to Gilford and Porta- 

 down, where it makes a noble appearance, and, after 

 a courfe of near thirty miles, falls into Lough Neagh 

 near the Bann-foot ferry, in the county of Armagh. 

 Near Portadown it is joined by the Newry Canal, 

 which unites the bay of Carlingford with the above- 

 mentioned lough. 



The river Lagan rifes in two fmall ftreams ; the 

 eaftern fource fprings from that part of the mountain 

 of Slieve-Croob, which lies in the barony of Kinalarty; 

 the weftern from the mountain of Slieve-na-boly, in 

 the barony of Upper Iveagh; they unite a little to the 

 north-eaft of Waringsford, from whence it flows to 

 the north-weft through the town of Dromore to Gill- 

 hall, and, being there augmented by another rivulet 

 from two loughs fouth of Dromore, pafles in a north- 

 wefterly direction under the bridges of Donoghclony, 

 Gihon, and Magh'eralin, where it turns^ north-eaft, and 

 rolls on until it arrives near Moiraj flows next under 

 Spencer's-bridge, the Maze-bridge, pafles through a 

 fmall part of Lifburn, Drum-bridge, Shaw's-bridge, 

 and, at length, under the bridge of Belfaft, where it 



empties 



