RIVER FARSET

The river on High Street, c 1830.

The 'River Farset' (''Abhainn na Feirste'' in Irish) is a river in Northern Ireland, a tributary of the River Lagan. It joins the Lagan close to its outflow into Belfast Lough.
Belfast was founded as a ford across the Farset, and this is the origin of the city's name - ''Béal Feirste'', The Mouth of the Farset.
The River Farset is now contained in ignominy within a pipe under Belfast's High Street. The river formed a dock on High Street in the 19th century.

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