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The '''River Blackwater''' ({{langx|ga|Abhainn Dubh}}) rises in the [[Cuilcagh]] Mountains, in the townland of Gowlan, Parish of Killinagh, Barony of [[Tullyhaw]], [[County Cavan]]. It then flows in a south-east direction and ends in [[Ballymagauran]] Lough.[http://mapcarta.com/18277910] It has a fish population of brown trout, pike and perch.[http://fishinginireland.info/coarse/north/mapballinamore.htm] The earliest mention of the river is in poems in the Book of Magauran dating to the 1350s.<ref>L. McKenna, ed., tr. (1947), "The Book of Magauran"</ref>
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[[Category:Rivers of County Cavan|Blackwater]]
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