River Bann
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Sep 25, 2026
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
The hunter-gatherers were probably a small extended family group and they appear to have occupied the camp for most of the year.
Lara CassidyGUEST
And just across the way there is the River Ban.
Lara CassidyGUEST
You walk down it about two hours and you're hitting the sea and the estuary and that tidal zone, which has lots of lovely yummy things to eat in it.
Lara CassidyGUEST
Over 80% of the animal moraines they found in this site are coming from fish.
Andrew LevieGUEST
Instead, he claims that Ulster is divided from Connacht by Loch Earn and a river that flows from it into the ocean.
Andrew LevieGUEST
Though today we call this river the River Earn, Camden's 1590 and 1594 edition of the Britannia labels it as the Banna or the Bannius.
Andrew LevieGUEST
The question arises of where Camden got this name for this river.
Andrew LevieGUEST
The likely source is his humanist mentor and colleague, Abraham Ortelius.
Andrew LevieGUEST
So Artelius was an Antwerpian cartographer who in 1572 produced a map of Ireland as you can see here.
Andrew LevieGUEST
And if we look at the northwest corner of Ortelius' map, we can see that what would nowadays be called the River Urn is labeled the Banna Fluius.
Andrew LevieGUEST
And this river, as you can also see, also separates Connacht from Ulster in Ortelius' map.
Andrew LevieGUEST
And although for the Gaelic Irish it was the drow that separates Connacht from Ulster, for external writers such as Camden and Ortelius, it seems that they think it's the River Urn, or as Camden calls it, or they call it the Banna, that separates the provinces.
Andrew LevieGUEST
So for continental cartographers, English chorographers, and New English in Ireland, what we today call the River Erne was the divider between Connacht and Ulster rather than the River Drauis.
Andrew LevieGUEST
Uh, the same name, uh, sorry, the name given to the River Erne by Camden or Ortelius, the Banna, sounds very similar to another river on the other side of Ulster, the River Bann.
Andrew LevieGUEST
It flows from the Mourne Mountains, uh, through Lough Neagh before it makes its way to the sea on the north coast of Ireland.
Andrew LevieGUEST
So on Ortelius's map, it's called the Bann or the Bannie River.
Andrew LevieGUEST
So though for Ortelius and Camden there's some blurring between these names of what we now call the River Erne and the River Bann, the New English on the ground appear not to have used such similarly sounding names.
Andrew LevieGUEST
Uh, a book entry in the 1592 State Papers written by the Archbishop of Cashel clarifies this nomenclature.
Andrew LevieGUEST
After a request from the Queen as to how Ireland should be better managed, the Archbishop outlines that there are three major rivers in Ulster, the Erne, the Banna, and the Lough Foyle, and that Her Majesty's forces would greatly benefit from bridges being built over the Banna and the Erne.
Gareth RussellHOST
But in August 1843, there was a freak storm in County Down with very heavy rain.
Gareth RussellHOST
The day before their wedding, Joseph's fiancée was riding her horse in one of the usual spots where locals crossed or forded the River Ban, from which Banbridge Town gained its name.
Gareth RussellHOST
The horse bucked, threw her off and she drowned in the swollen river waters.
Gareth RussellHOST
What would have been their wedding day instead became the day that the people of Bambridge woke to the news that the future Mrs Scriven had died.