The Arney River is a small river in

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, feeding from

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and into Upper Lough Erne. It meanders through a wide, flat

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between the uplands of Fermanagh,

Belmore Mountain Belmore Mountain () is a hill in the townland of Gortgall, western County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. With a summit roughly above sea level, it is the second highest point in Fermanagh, the highest being at Cuilcagh on the Northern Ireland& ...

and the

Cuilcagh Cuilcagh () is a mountain on the border between County Fermanagh (in Northern Ireland) and County Cavan (in the Republic of Ireland). With a height of it is the highest point in both counties. It is also the 170th highest peak on the island of ...

Mountains. The valley is characterised by wide flat lowlands enclosed by low hills. The

Cladagh River The Cladagh River () is a small river in County Fermanagh, formed from three rivers and a number of streams draining off the northern slopes of Cuilcagh mountain, which combine underground in the Marble Arch Cave system. On the surface, the Ri ...

drains into the Arney River. There are six bridging points on the Arney River, five of these are suitable for motorised vehicles, while one is located on private land near to the source of the river.

Angling

The river is often used by amateur anglers who are fishing for

salmon Salmon () is the common name for several list of commercially important fish species, commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the family (biology), family Salmonidae, which are native to tributary, tributaries of the ...

and

trout Trout are species of freshwater fish belonging to the genera '' Oncorhynchus'', ''Salmo'' and ''Salvelinus'', all of the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae. The word ''trout'' is also used as part of the name of some non-salmoni ...

, however, the river is mainly populated by

perch Perch is a common name for fish of the genus ''Perca'', freshwater gamefish belonging to the family Percidae. The perch, of which three species occur in different geographical areas, lend their name to a large order of vertebrates: the Percif ...

Name

There is a local tradition of an area beside the river called the Red Meadow alluding to blood soaking into the fields during the

Battle of the Ford of the Biscuits The Battle of the Ford of the Biscuits took place in Fermanagh, Ireland on 7 August 1594, during the Nine Years' War. A column of almost 650 English troops led by Sir Henry Duke was ambushed and defeated by a Gaelic Irish force under Hugh Magu ...

. Alternatively the local brick making industry may also have given rise to this name as the river was lined with brick fields during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Geograph - River Arney Photograph
* 2014 BBC News story on new evidence regarding the Battle of the Ford of the Biscuits:
Bullet discovery set to rewrite history books
* — "Maguire, MacBaron and Henry Duke’s crackers: the Battle of the Ford of the Biscuits", 7 August 1594 {{authority control Rivers of County Fermanagh

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