Talk:Callan River

Battle of Yellow Ford, 1598
According to PW Joyce, A Concise History of Ireland (1903), "The marshal arrived at Armagh with an army of 4,000 foot and 350 horse. The five miles highway between the city and Portmore was a narrow strip of uneven ground, with bogs and woods at both sides; and right in the way, at Bellanaboy or the Yellow Ford, on the little river Callan, two miles north of Armagh, O'Neill had marshalled his forces, and determined to dispute the passage." (http://www.libraryireland.com/JoyceHistory/YellowFord.php). Does anybody know where "Bellanaboy", the site of the battle, is precisely? 188.141.10.11 (talk) 21:03, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Revision of 3 September 2022
The accuracy of the removed sentence — “The two cuts were labelled "Callan River (New Course)" on maps of the time, but are unnamed on more recent OSNI maps.” — is easily verified from the references given to on-line government documents. That's not a great deal of original research.

The purpose of including it was (a) to show that the diversion of the Callan (and not simply of the Tall) was uppermost in the intentions of the engineers; and (b) to record the history of the naming of these rivers and cuts, something which still gives rise to mis-informed statements, as witness the wikipedia pages on the two rivers until last month. 109.155.59.172 (talk) 10:06, 5 September 2022 (UTC)