6-877: The Drumenny Burn , also known as the Drumonny Burn, the Drumenny River, the Drummenny River or the Drimminy River, is a burn in the south of County Donegal in Ulster , the northern province in Ireland. The lower stretch of the burn flows around the eastern edge of Donegal Town , where it flows into the River Eske . In the Ulster Scots dialect , a ' burn ' is a stream or small river. The Drumenny Burn probably takes its name from
12-610: Is "bourn", " bourne ", "borne", "born", which is retained in placenames like Bournemouth , King's Somborne , Holborn , Melbourne . A cognate in German is Born (contemp. Brunnen ), meaning "well", "spring" or "source", which is retained in placenames like Paderborn in Germany. Both the English and German words derive from the same Proto-Germanic root. Scots Gaelic has the word bùrn , also cognate, but which means " fresh water ";
18-464: The River Eske very near this location, on the north-eastern edge of the town. Burn (landform) In local usage, a burn is a kind of watercourse . The term applies to a large stream or a small river . The word is used in Scotland and England (especially North East England ) and in parts of Ulster , Kansas , Australia and New Zealand . The cognate of burn in standard English
24-469: The townland of Drumenny Upper, through which it flows, or else from the townlands of Drumenny Middle and Drumenny Lower, around the edges of which it flows. Almost all of the burn flows within the Civil Parish of Donegal. The Drumenny Burn is around 7.5 miles (around 12.07 kilometres ) in length. The burn rises where the eastern end of the townland of Straness (sometimes spelled as Strathnas) meets
30-648: The eastern edge of Donegal Town, part of this stretch flowing alongside the Old Laghey Road. The burn flows along the edge of both Brú na Mara and Farmleigh Park, two housing estates just off the Old Laghey Road, on the eastern edge of Donegal Town. The burn then flows under the Ballybofey Road (part of the R267 ), flowing under a bridge located between The Northern Garage and Donegal Town Community Hospital, entering
36-522: The western end of the townland of Barnesyneilly, on the southern slopes of Clogher Hill, very near Straness Wind Farm, just over 7 miles east-north-east of Donegal Town . It flows in a mainly westerly direction from its source. In the townland of Drumenny Lower, on the eastern outskirts of Donegal Town, the burn flows under the Donegal Town Bypass, part of the N15 . The lower stretch of the burn flows along
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