# Bann

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #83,034

## Definitions
1. A river in County Down, County Armagh, County Antrim and County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, which flows through Lough Neagh.
2. A river in southeastern Ireland.

## Etymology
From Irish an Bhanna (“the river goddess”), from ban (“woman”) + dia (“goddess, deity”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/bann